IC 2960
IC 2960
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
464 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 464 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2960 as it looked roughly 464 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 3878Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3880Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 2952Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3871Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 726Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 3847Elliptical23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3880Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 2952Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3871Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 726Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 3847Elliptical23 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).