NGC 2484

NGC 2484

NGC 2484 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 570 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 280,000 ly, about 2.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 12,990 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
570 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
280k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
12,990 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 570 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2484 as it looked roughly 570 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 2537ASpiral86 million ly
apart
IC 2190Barred spiral90 million ly
apart
IC 2223Lenticular93 million ly
apart
IC 2401Lenticular97 million ly
apart
IC 2225Barred spiral110 million ly
apart
IC 2222Barred spiral110 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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