IC 2338
IC 2338
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
252 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 252 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2338 as it looked roughly 252 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 2339Spiral840,000 ly
apartIC 2341Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 2569Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 509Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2562Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 2290Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2341Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 2569Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 509Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2562Lenticular16 million ly
apartIC 2290Spiral17 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).