NGC 2773
NGC 2773
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
249 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2773 as it looked roughly 249 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 2481Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2900Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2728Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 530Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2861Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 526Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2900Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 2728Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 530Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2861Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 526Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).