IC 2031
IC 2031
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2031 as it looked roughly 227 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 1576Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 1552Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 1600Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 1601Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 1568Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 1610Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1552Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 1600Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 1601Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 1568Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 1610Spiral29 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).