NGC 2862

NGC 2862

NGC 2862 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 190 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 4,156 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
190 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
146k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
4,156 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 190 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2862 as it looked roughly 190 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.

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NGC 2896Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 2766Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 2428Spiral23 million ly
apart
NGC 2916Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 2439Spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 2487Barred spiral26 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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