IC 2909
IC 2909
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
908 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
17.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 908 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2909 as it looked roughly 908 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 2894Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 2790Spiral59 million ly
apartIC 2797Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 2818Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 2792Elliptical66 million ly
apartIC 2722 NED01Elliptical82 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2790Spiral59 million ly
apartIC 2797Elliptical64 million ly
apartIC 2818Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 2792Elliptical66 million ly
apartIC 2722 NED01Elliptical82 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).