IC 2757
IC 2757
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
297 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 297 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2757 as it looked roughly 297 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 2850Spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 2853Spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 2857Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 696Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2867Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2758Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2853Spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 2857Spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 696Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2867Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2758Spiral11 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).