NGC 2850
NGC 2850
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
342 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 342 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2850 as it looked roughly 342 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
IC 539Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2878Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 2877Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 2898Lenticular45 million ly
apartNGC 2897Lenticular45 million ly
apartIC 553Barred spiral47 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2878Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 2877Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 2898Lenticular45 million ly
apartNGC 2897Lenticular45 million ly
apartIC 553Barred spiral47 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).