NGC 2775

NGC 2775

NGC 2775 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 63 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 78,000 ly, about 78% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,340 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
63 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
10.2
apparent magnitude
1,340 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 63 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2775 as it looked roughly 63 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 2777Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apart
IC 549Irregular9.0 million ly
apart
NGC 3024Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3044Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 3049Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 3041Spiral16 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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