NGC 2753

NGC 2753

NGC 2753 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 129 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 21,000 ly, about 21% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,832 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
129 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
21k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
2,832 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 129 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2753 as it looked roughly 129 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 2750Spiral4.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2824Lenticular6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2764Lenticular9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2743Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 2430Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 2738Barred spiral13 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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