NGC 2770

NGC 2770

NGC 2770 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 90 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 1,955 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
12.2
apparent magnitude
1,955 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2770 as it looked roughly 90 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
IC 2445Barred spiral2.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2780Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2778Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2679Lenticular8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2779Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 2859Lenticular13 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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