NGC 2804

NGC 2804

NGC 2804 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 387 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 160,000 ly, about 1.6 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,117 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
387 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
156k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
8,117 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 387 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2804 as it looked roughly 387 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 2807ABarred spiral1.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2809Lenticular2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2807BLenticular8.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2774Elliptical17 million ly
apart
IC 2457Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 2791Lenticular19 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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