IC 2106
IC 2106
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
234 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 234 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2106 as it looked roughly 234 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 1687Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 1780Lenticular39 million ly
apartNGC 1701Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 2122Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 1781Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 1540Spiral46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1780Lenticular39 million ly
apartNGC 1701Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 2122Elliptical42 million ly
apartNGC 1781Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 1540Spiral46 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).