NGC 2510

NGC 2510

NGC 2510 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canis Minor about 186 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 53,000 ly, about 53% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 186 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
186 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 186 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2510 as it looked roughly 186 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 2508Elliptical15 million ly
apart
IC 502Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 2470Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 2538Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 2561Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 2526Spiral22 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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