NGC 2919
NGC 2919
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
114 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 114 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2919 as it looked roughly 114 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 2906Spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 2894Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2882Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3094Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2731Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 540Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2894Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2882Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3094Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2731Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 540Spiral19 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).