NGC 2634

NGC 2634

NGC 2634 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis about 106 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 53,000 ly, about 53% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,268 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
2,268 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2634 as it looked roughly 106 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 2550Barred spiral3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2551Lenticular3.8 million ly
apart
IC 529Spiral4.0 million ly
apart
IC 2389Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2633Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2938Spiral7.3 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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