NGC 2935

NGC 2935

NGC 2935 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 106 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,214 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
106 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
11.2
apparent magnitude
2,214 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 106 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2935 as it looked roughly 106 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 2986Elliptical3.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2891Elliptical8.1 million ly
apart
NGC 3045Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 2983Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 3081Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 2907Spiral13 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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