NGC 2507

NGC 2507

NGC 2507 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 213 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 94,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,562 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
213 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
4,562 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 213 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2507 as it looked roughly 213 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 2522Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 2514Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 2454Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 2530Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 2511Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 2513Elliptical24 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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