IC 2166
IC 2166
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2166 as it looked roughly 125 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 2128Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 2273ASpiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2273BSpiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2273Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 2551Lenticular41 million ly
apartNGC 1530ASpiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2273ASpiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2273BSpiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2273Spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 2551Lenticular41 million ly
apartNGC 1530ASpiral41 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).