NGC 2719A

NGC 2719A

NGC 2719A is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 144 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 20,000 ly, about 20% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,081 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Irregular
type · I
144 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
20k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
3,081 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 144 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2719A as it looked roughly 144 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 2719Irregular3.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2724Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
IC 2429Spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 2430Lenticular20 million ly
apart
NGC 2785Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 2743Spiral27 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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