NGC 2769

NGC 2769

NGC 2769 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 224 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,820 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
4,820 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2769 as it looked roughly 224 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 2767Elliptical5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2762Lenticular6.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2693Elliptical10 million ly
apart
NGC 2857Spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 2771Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 2694Elliptical16 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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