IC 2871
IC 2871
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
377 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 377 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2871 as it looked roughly 377 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 2742Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3601Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 3685Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 2637Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 2634Barred spiral45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3601Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 3685Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 2637Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 2741Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 2634Barred spiral45 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).