NGC 63

NGC 63

NGC 63 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 54 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 27,000 ly, about 27% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 54 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
54 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
27k ly
across
12.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 54 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 63 as it looked roughly 54 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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NGC 7814Spiral7.5 million ly
apart
IC 5377Irregular7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 428Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 337ASpiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 7742Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 7800Irregular26 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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