NGC 2974

NGC 2974

NGC 2974 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Sextans about 92 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 93,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,006 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
92 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
10.9
apparent magnitude
2,006 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2974 as it looked roughly 92 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 2967Spiral7.2 million ly
apart
IC 560Lenticular8.3 million ly
apart
NGC 3023Spiral8.5 million ly
apart
NGC 3018Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
NGC 2978Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 2966Spiral14 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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