NGC 2663

NGC 2663

NGC 2663 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pyxis about 99 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,102 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
99 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
10.6
apparent magnitude
2,102 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 99 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2663 as it looked roughly 99 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.

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apart
NGC 2891Elliptical25 million ly
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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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