NGC 2648
NGC 2648 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 93 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,918 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 93 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2648 as it looked roughly 93 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.
apartIC 2329Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2644Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2577Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 2592Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 2256Spiral20 million ly
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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).