IC 2981
IC 2981
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
25k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2981 as it looked roughly 160 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 3995Spiral5.6 million ly
apartIC 2985Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 3966Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2985Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED02Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 3966Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartIC 2978Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3991 NED01Irregular12 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).