NGC 2926

NGC 2926

NGC 2926 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 203 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 49,000 ly, about 49% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,417 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
4,417 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2926 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 2942Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 2922Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 2439Spiral22 million ly
apart
NGC 2766Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 2862Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
IC 2428Spiral27 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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