NGC 2740

NGC 2740

NGC 2740 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 412 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,903 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
412 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
8,903 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 412 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2740 as it looked roughly 412 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 2739Spiral430,000 ly
apart
NGC 2675Elliptical30 million ly
apart
NGC 2676Lenticular35 million ly
apart
NGC 2895Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
NGC 2800Elliptical60 million ly
apart
NGC 2488Elliptical76 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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