IC 2043
IC 2043
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
548 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
228k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 548 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2043 as it looked roughly 548 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 2024Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 2082 NED01Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 1506Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 2066Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2082 NED02Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 2050Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2082 NED01Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 1506Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 2066Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2082 NED02Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 2050Barred spiral28 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).