NGC 2333

NGC 2333

NGC 2333 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Gemini about 220 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,274 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
220 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
4,274 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 220 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2333 as it looked roughly 220 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 2185Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 2275Spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 2393Spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 2289Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 2290Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 2294Elliptical23 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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