IC 2180
IC 2180
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
249 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 249 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2180 as it looked roughly 249 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 2370Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2376Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2342Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2341Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2198Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 2405Galaxy26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2376Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2342Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2341Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2198Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 2405Galaxy26 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).