NGC 2780

NGC 2780

NGC 2780 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 92 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 28,000 ly, about 28% 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

Barred spiral
type · Sb
92 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
28k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
2,019 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2780 as it looked roughly 92 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 2778Elliptical3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2770Spiral3.8 million ly
apart
IC 2445Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2779Lenticular9.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2679Lenticular10 million ly
apart
NGC 2852Spiral11 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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