NGC 2307

NGC 2307

NGC 2307 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Volans about 212 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,558 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
212 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
4,558 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 212 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2307 as it looked roughly 212 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
NGC 2397ABarred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 2187BElliptical25 million ly
apart
NGC 2150Spiral27 million ly
apart
NGC 2187ALenticular36 million ly
apart
NGC 2199Spiral36 million ly
apart
NGC 2087Barred spiral44 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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