NGC 2746

NGC 2746

NGC 2746 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 329 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about 1.5 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,025 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
329 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
7,025 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 329 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2746 as it looked roughly 329 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.

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IC 2456Elliptical14 million ly
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NGC 2759Elliptical14 million ly
apart
IC 2459Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 2823Spiral18 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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