NGC 2695

NGC 2695

NGC 2695 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 85 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 40,000 ly, about 40% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,825 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
85 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
1,825 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 85 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2695 as it looked roughly 85 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 2699Elliptical550,000 ly
apart
NGC 2697Lenticular700,000 ly
apart
NGC 2698Lenticular1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2709Lenticular3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2708Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2706Barred spiral8.8 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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