NGC 2922

NGC 2922

NGC 2922 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 203 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 63,000 ly, about 63% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,356 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sm
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
4,356 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2922 as it looked roughly 203 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 2942Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 2860Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 2926Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 3010ALenticular26 million ly
apart
NGC 3005Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 3009Barred spiral27 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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