IC 2036
IC 2036
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
295 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 295 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2036 as it looked roughly 295 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 1572Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1660Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 1658Barred spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 1687Spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 1217Spiral63 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1660Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 1658Barred spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 1578Spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 1687Spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 1217Spiral63 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).