NGC 2809

NGC 2809

NGC 2809 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 389 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,983 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
7,983 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2809 as it looked roughly 389 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 2804Lenticular2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2807ABarred spiral3.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2807BLenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 2457Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 2774Elliptical16 million ly
apart
NGC 2813Lenticular16 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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