NGC 2350

NGC 2350

NGC 2350 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canis Minor about 88 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 35,000 ly, about 35% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,877 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
88 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
1,877 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 88 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2350 as it looked roughly 88 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 2339Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 2365Spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 2357Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 2481Lenticular29 million ly
apart
IC 2329Spiral30 million ly
apart
IC 2256Spiral33 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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