NGC 2790

NGC 2790

NGC 2790 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 365 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 64,000 ly, about 64% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,846 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
365 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
7,846 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 365 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2790 as it looked roughly 365 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 2801Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2797Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 2807BLenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 2807ABarred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 2472Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
NGC 2804Lenticular22 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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