NGC 2389

NGC 2389

NGC 2389 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Gemini about 184 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 83,000 ly, about 83% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,783 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
184 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
3,783 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 184 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2389 as it looked roughly 184 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 2388Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2379Lenticular4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2415Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2385Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2435Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 2445Spiral20 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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