NGC 2300

NGC 2300

NGC 2300 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cepheus about 90 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 79,000 ly, about 79% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,963 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
1,963 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2300 as it looked roughly 90 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 455Lenticular1.7 million ly
apart
IC 499Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
IC 469Spiral8.5 million ly
apart
IC 467Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2732Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 2268Barred spiral14 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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