IC 2991
IC 2991
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
466 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 466 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2991 as it looked roughly 466 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 4083Lenticular1,000,000 ly
apartIC 3012Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3037Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3043Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 748Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 3174Spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3012Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3037Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3043Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 748Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 3174Spiral38 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).