NGC 2616
NGC 2616
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
427 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
178k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 427 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2616 as it looked roughly 427 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 515Lenticular8.7 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 505Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 506Elliptical65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 517Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 505Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 506Elliptical65 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).