NGC 2712

NGC 2712

NGC 2712 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 84 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 71,000 ly, about 71% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,833 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
84 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
1,833 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 84 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2712 as it looked roughly 84 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 2798Spiral6.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2799Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2853Lenticular9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2852Spiral9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2844Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 2859Lenticular17 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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