IC 2852
IC 2852
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
435 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 435 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2852 as it looked roughly 435 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 2820Spiral5.0 million ly
apartIC 2783Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2930Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2712Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2942Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2783Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2930Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2712Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2942Spiral25 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).