NGC 2758

NGC 2758

NGC 2758 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 91 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 50,000 ly, about 50% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 91 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
91 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 91 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2758 as it looked roughly 91 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 2763Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2848Spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2781Lenticular8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2907Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 2665Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 2902Lenticular12 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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