NGC 2825

NGC 2825

NGC 2825 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 371 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,847 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
371 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
7,847 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 371 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2825 as it looked roughly 371 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 2839Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 2840Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 2473Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 2491Lenticular25 million ly
apart
IC 2478Elliptical27 million ly
apart
IC 2476Elliptical27 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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