NGC 2765

NGC 2765

NGC 2765 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 176 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 3,827 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
176 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
3,827 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 176 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2765 as it looked roughly 176 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 2729Lenticular5.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2723Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
IC 2426Lenticular9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2713Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2716Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 2718Spiral12 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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