NGC 2848

NGC 2848

NGC 2848 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 95 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 74,000 ly, about 74% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,157 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABc
95 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
12.1
apparent magnitude
2,157 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 95 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2848 as it looked roughly 95 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 2781Lenticular4.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2907Spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2902Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2758Barred spiral8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2763Barred spiral8.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2855Lenticular9.6 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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