NGC 2341

NGC 2341

NGC 2341 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Gemini about 243 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,226 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
243 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
5,226 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 243 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2341 as it looked roughly 243 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 2342Spiral410,000 ly
apart
IC 2181Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 2376Spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 2180Spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 2370Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 2411Lenticular28 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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