NGC 2315

NGC 2315

NGC 2315 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 286 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,159 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
286 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
6,159 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 286 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2315 as it looked roughly 286 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 2326ASpiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2321Spiral6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2334Lenticular7.4 million ly
apart
IC 460Galaxy7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2322Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2326Barred spiral8.7 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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