NGC 2685
NGC 2685
Helix Galaxy is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is receding from us at about 869 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
11.3
apparent magnitude
869 km/s
receding (RC3)
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). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.