NGC 2930

NGC 2930

NGC 2930 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 307 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 45,000 ly, about 45% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 6,599 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
307 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
6,599 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 307 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2930 as it looked roughly 307 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 545Spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 3040 NED01Spiral34 million ly
apart
NGC 3068Elliptical40 million ly
apart
NGC 2994Lenticular41 million ly
apart
NGC 2991Lenticular42 million ly
apart
NGC 2931Barred spiral42 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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