IC 2103
IC 2103
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2103 as it looked roughly 200 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 2089Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 2199Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 1956Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2160Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2012Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 2144Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2199Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 1956Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2160Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2012Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 2144Spiral33 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).