IC 2095
IC 2095
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
133 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 133 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2095 as it looked roughly 133 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 2098Spiral1.7 million ly
apartNGC 1677Lenticular4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1665Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 1666Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartNGC 1681Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 1843Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1677Lenticular4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1665Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 1666Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartNGC 1681Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartNGC 1843Spiral21 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).