IC 2080
IC 2080
IC 2080 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 192 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 44,000 ly, about 44% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 192 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2080 as it looked roughly 192 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 1599Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartIC 373Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartIC 372Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartNGC 1607Lenticular6.7 million ly
apartNGC 1580Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 1611Lenticular9.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 373Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartIC 372Lenticular5.7 million ly
apartNGC 1607Lenticular6.7 million ly
apartNGC 1580Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 1611Lenticular9.0 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).