NGC 2853

NGC 2853

NGC 2853 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Lynx about 83 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 40,000 ly, about 40% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,776 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
83 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
1,776 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 83 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2853 as it looked roughly 83 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 2852Spiral1.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2798Spiral3.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2799Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2859Lenticular9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2712Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2780Barred spiral13 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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