NGC 2768

NGC 2768

NGC 2768 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 64 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,335 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
9.9
apparent magnitude
1,335 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2768 as it looked roughly 64 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 2654Barred spiral3.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2742Spiral4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2950Lenticular4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2820Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2820ASpiral5.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2880Elliptical8.5 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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