NGC 2767

NGC 2767

NGC 2767 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 230 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 48,000 ly, about 48% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,944 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
230 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
4,944 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 230 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2767 as it looked roughly 230 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 2769Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2771Spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2693Elliptical9.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2857Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 2762Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 2694Elliptical12 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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