NGC 2776

NGC 2776

NGC 2776 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 122 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,618 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
122 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
2,618 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 122 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2776 as it looked roughly 122 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 2785Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2856Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
NGC 2782Spiral11 million ly
apart
NGC 2854Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 2684Spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 2701Spiral23 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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