IC 2734
IC 2734
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
280k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 2734 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 2788Galaxy16 million ly
apartIC 2845Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 2771Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 2725Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2716Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 2864Spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2845Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 2771Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 2725Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2716Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 2864Spiral50 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).