NGC 2369

NGC 2369

NGC 2369 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Carina about 151 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,275 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
151 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
3,275 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 151 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2369 as it looked roughly 151 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 2369ASpiral3.6 million ly
apart
IC 2200Spiral3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2417Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2369BBarred spiral9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2297Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 2305Elliptical12 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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