NGC 2622

NGC 2622

NGC 2622 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 400 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,554 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
8,554 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2622 as it looked roughly 400 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
NGC 2621Spiral3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2576Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 2620Spiral36 million ly
apart
IC 2249Barred spiral38 million ly
apart
IC 2404Lenticular45 million ly
apart
IC 2423Barred spiral51 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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