NGC 2661
NGC 2661
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2661 as it looked roughly 192 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 2657Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 2667Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2677Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 2730Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 502Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 2667BBarred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2667Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2677Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 2730Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 502Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 2667BBarred spiral25 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).