IC 2049
IC 2049
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
68 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
21k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 68 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2049 as it looked roughly 68 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 1566Spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 2058Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 1596Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartIC 1980Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 1602Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 1703Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2058Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 1596Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartIC 1980Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartNGC 1602Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 1703Barred spiral7.1 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).