NGC 2778

NGC 2778

NGC 2778 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 95 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 36,000 ly, about 36% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,019 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
95 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
2,019 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 95 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2778 as it looked roughly 95 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 2780Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2770Spiral6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2779Lenticular6.4 million ly
apart
IC 2445Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2679Lenticular10 million ly
apart
IC 2461Barred spiral11 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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