NGC 2824

NGC 2824

NGC 2824 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 128 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 36,000 ly, about 36% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,759 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
128 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
2,759 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 128 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2824 as it looked roughly 128 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 2753Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2750Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2764Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 2430Lenticular14 million ly
apart
NGC 2743Spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 2735AIrregular15 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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