NGC 2759
NGC 2759 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 323 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,944 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Because its light is 323 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2759 as it looked roughly 323 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.
apartIC 2434Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 2459Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 2456Elliptical20 million ly
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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).