NGC 2110

NGC 2110

NGC 2110 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Orion about 106 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 56,000 ly, about 56% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,284 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
2,284 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2110 as it looked roughly 106 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 441Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 1924Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 2076Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 1889Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 1784Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 2212Lenticular24 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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