NGC 2948
NGC 2948
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
232 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 232 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2948 as it looked roughly 232 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 2960Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 2900Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3039Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2481Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2861Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3069Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2900Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3039Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2481Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2861Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3069Spiral28 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).