NGC 2728
NGC 2728
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
267 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 267 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2728 as it looked roughly 267 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
IC 526Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 2773Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2711Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 530Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2407Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 2786Spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2773Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2711Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 530Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2407Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 2786Spiral42 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).