NGC 2807B
NGC 2807B
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
378 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 378 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2807B as it looked roughly 378 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 2807ABarred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 2804Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2809Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2790Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 2801Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2797Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2804Lenticular8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2809Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2790Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 2801Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2797Spiral22 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).