NGC 2984
NGC 2984
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
288 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 288 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2984 as it looked roughly 288 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
IC 557Barred spiral4.7 million ly
apartIC 552Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 2958Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 565 NED01Galaxy25 million ly
apartIC 554Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 565 NED02Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 552Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 2958Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 565 NED01Galaxy25 million ly
apartIC 554Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 565 NED02Spiral29 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).