NGC 2668
NGC 2668
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
350 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 350 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2668 as it looked roughly 350 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 2405Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 2400Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2434Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 527Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2400Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2704Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2434Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2746Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 527Barred spiral35 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).