IC 2376

IC 2376

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
623 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
161k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 623 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2376 as it looked roughly 623 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 2383Elliptical43 million ly
apart
IC 2378Elliptical80 million ly
apart
IC 2218Elliptical92 million ly
apart
IC 2401Lenticular100 million ly
apart
IC 2427Elliptical110 million ly
apart
IC 2380Lenticular110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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