NGC 2715

NGC 2715

NGC 2715 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis about 62 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,275 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
62 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
11.5
apparent magnitude
1,275 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 62 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2715 as it looked roughly 62 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 2591Spiral1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2655Lenticular4.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2985Spiral6.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2748Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3403Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2760Elliptical11 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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