NGC 2958

NGC 2958

NGC 2958 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 309 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 88,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 6,639 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
309 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
6,639 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 309 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2958 as it looked roughly 309 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 554Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2984Elliptical22 million ly
apart
IC 557Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
IC 565 NED01Galaxy32 million ly
apart
IC 585Elliptical35 million ly
apart
IC 552Lenticular40 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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