NGC 2554

NGC 2554

NGC 2554 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 192 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,126 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
4,126 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2554 as it looked roughly 192 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 2248Spiral1.8 million ly
apart
IC 2269Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apart
IC 2293Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2536Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
IC 2247Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2535Barred spiral8.1 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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