NGC 2513

NGC 2513

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
219 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
11.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2513 as it looked roughly 219 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 2511Spiral810,000 ly
apart
NGC 2485Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2526Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 2508Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 2507Lenticular24 million ly
apart
NGC 2514Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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