NGC 2940
NGC 2940
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
399 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 399 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2940 as it looked roughly 399 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 551Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 578Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 570Spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3019Spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 578Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 570Spiral49 million ly
apart
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).