IC 2070
IC 2070
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
327 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 327 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2070 as it looked roughly 327 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 2060Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 2022Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2014Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 1463Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral52 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2022Spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2014Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 1463Spiral43 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral52 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).