NGC 2124

NGC 2124

NGC 2124 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lepus about 138 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 138 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
138 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 138 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2124 as it looked roughly 138 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.

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NGC 2073Elliptical8.7 million ly
apart
IC 2143Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2089Elliptical10 million ly
apart
IC 438Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 2179Lenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 2151Barred spiral11 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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