IC 2973
IC 2973
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
148 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 148 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2973 as it looked roughly 148 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 3991 NED01Irregular3.3 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 3966Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 3994Spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3935Spiral5.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2978Barred spiral4.2 million ly
apartNGC 3966Lenticular5.1 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 3994Spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3935Spiral5.6 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).