NGC 2763

NGC 2763

NGC 2763 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 88 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 62,000 ly, about 62% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,860 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBc
88 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
1,860 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 88 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2763 as it looked roughly 88 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 2758Barred spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2781Lenticular7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2855Lenticular7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2848Spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2902Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 2863Spiral11 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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