IC 2782
IC 2782
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
13k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2782 as it looked roughly 47 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
NGC 3666Barred spiral3.4 million ly
apartNGC 3705Spiral3.7 million ly
apartIC 2767Spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 3810Spiral3.9 million ly
apartIC 2828Irregular4.3 million ly
apartNGC 3691Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3705Spiral3.7 million ly
apartIC 2767Spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 3810Spiral3.9 million ly
apartIC 2828Irregular4.3 million ly
apartNGC 3691Barred spiral4.5 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).