IC 2104
IC 2104
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
158k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2104 as it looked roughly 257 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 1686Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1710Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1781Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 380Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1780Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 1632Lenticular40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1710Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1781Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 380Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1780Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 1632Lenticular40 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).