NGC 2417

NGC 2417

NGC 2417 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Carina about 150 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,182 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
3,182 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2417 as it looked roughly 150 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 2200Spiral890,000 ly
apart
NGC 2369Spiral4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2369ASpiral4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2369BBarred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2297Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 2305Elliptical16 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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