NGC 6703

NGC 6703

NGC 6703 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lyra about 110 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 78,000 ly, about 78% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,365 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
11.4
apparent magnitude
2,365 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 6703 as it looked roughly 110 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 6798Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 6757Lenticular20 million ly
apart
IC 1265Spiral26 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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