NGC 2694

NGC 2694

NGC 2694 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 237 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 56,000 ly, about 56% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 5,123 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
237 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
5,123 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 237 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2694 as it looked roughly 237 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 2693Elliptical8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2771Spiral9.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2767Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 2769Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 2762Lenticular21 million ly
apart
NGC 2857Spiral22 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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