NGC 2639

NGC 2639

NGC 2639 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 150 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 70,000 ly, about 70% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,198 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
150 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
3,198 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 150 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2639 as it looked roughly 150 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 2469Barred spiral27 million ly
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NGC 2692Spiral27 million ly
apart
NGC 2854Barred spiral27 million ly
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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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