NGC 2704

NGC 2704

NGC 2704 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 332 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,132 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
332 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
7,132 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 332 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2704 as it looked roughly 332 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.

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IC 2434Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 2759Elliptical19 million ly
apart
IC 527Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
NGC 2746Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 2668Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 2755Barred spiral27 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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