NGC 2823

NGC 2823

NGC 2823 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 332 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 99,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,092 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
332 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
99k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
7,092 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 332 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2823 as it looked roughly 332 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 2829 NED02Elliptical2.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2827Spiral6.3 million ly
apart
IC 2456Elliptical6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2834Elliptical7.2 million ly
apart
NGC 2833Spiral7.7 million ly
apart
IC 2459Elliptical7.9 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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