NGC 2759

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

Elliptical
type · E-S0
323 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
6,944 km/s
receding (RC3)

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.

Nearest galaxies
IC 527Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apart
IC 2434Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 2746Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 2704Spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 2459Elliptical20 million ly
apart
IC 2456Elliptical20 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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