NGC 2370

NGC 2370

NGC 2370 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Gemini about 259 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 5,564 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
259 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
5,564 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 259 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2370 as it looked roughly 259 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 2376Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
IC 2198Elliptical11 million ly
apart
NGC 2405Galaxy13 million ly
apart
IC 2180Spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 2341Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 2342Spiral26 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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