IC 2089
IC 2089
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
222 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 222 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2089 as it looked roughly 222 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 1956Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2160Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2012Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 2103Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2199Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2144Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2160Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 2012Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 2103Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2199Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2144Spiral28 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).