NGC 2950

NGC 2950

NGC 2950 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major about 64 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 1,337 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
64 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
11.0
apparent magnitude
1,337 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 64 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2950 as it looked roughly 64 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 2768Elliptical4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2742Spiral6.6 million ly
apart
NGC 2820Barred spiral6.8 million ly
apart
NGC 2820ASpiral7.3 million ly
apart
NGC 2654Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2880Elliptical9.0 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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