NGC 2584

NGC 2584

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBbc
323 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 323 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2584 as it looked roughly 323 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 2585Barred spiral1.7 million ly
apart
NGC 2583Elliptical47 million ly
apart
IC 513Lenticular58 million ly
apart
IC 2377Spiral60 million ly
apart
IC 525Barred spiral75 million ly
apart
IC 506Elliptical83 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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