IC 2979
IC 2979
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
143 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 143 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2979 as it looked roughly 143 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 3994Spiral740,000 ly
apartNGC 3935Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 2986Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular4.9 million ly
apartIC 2973Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3935Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 2986Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular4.9 million ly
apartIC 2973Barred spiral6.0 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral7.0 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).