NGC 2544

NGC 2544

NGC 2544 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis about 131 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 58,000 ly, about 58% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,828 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
2,828 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2544 as it looked roughly 131 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 3147Barred spiral18 million ly
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NGC 3155Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 2389Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
NGC 3061Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 3183Barred spiral23 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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