NGC 2795
NGC 2795
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
138k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2795 as it looked roughly 400 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 2454Spiral2.0 million ly
apartNGC 2791Lenticular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 2794Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2774Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 2802Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 2761Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2791Lenticular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 2794Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2774Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 2802Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 2761Spiral17 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).