IC 2339
IC 2339
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
251 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 251 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2339 as it looked roughly 251 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 2338Barred spiral840,000 ly
apartIC 2341Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 2569Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 509Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2562Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 2290Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2341Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 2569Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 509Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2562Lenticular15 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).