NGC 2106

NGC 2106

NGC 2106 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Lepus about 89 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 63,000 ly, about 63% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 89 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
89 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 89 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2106 as it looked roughly 89 million years ago. The photons left before that much of history had passed, and are only now reaching us. This distance is estimated from the galaxy's redshift, so the lookback time is approximate.

Nearest galaxies
IC 2152Barred spiral4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2139Spiral6.1 million ly
apart
IC 2129Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 1979Elliptical10 million ly
apart
IC 2137Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2211Lenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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