NGC 2616

NGC 2616

NGC 2616 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 427 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 180,000 ly, about 1.8 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,000 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
427 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
9,000 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 427 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2616 as it looked roughly 427 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 515Lenticular8.7 million ly
apart
IC 517Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 521Spiral51 million ly
apart
IC 505Spiral52 million ly
apart
IC 2420Elliptical57 million ly
apart
IC 506Elliptical65 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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