NGC 2334
NGC 2334
NGC 2334 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 286 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 286 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
286 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 286 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2334 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
IC 460Galaxy2.9 million ly
apartNGC 2326ASpiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 2315Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 2321Spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 2326Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 2322Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2326ASpiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 2315Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 2321Spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 2326Barred spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 2322Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apart
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).