IC 2176
IC 2176
IC 2176 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Gemini about 344 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 93,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 344 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
344 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 344 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2176 as it looked roughly 344 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 2178Galaxy1.8 million ly
apartNGC 2373Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2375Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 474Lenticular74 million ly
apartIC 2208Lenticular75 million ly
apartIC 2213Lenticular76 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2373Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2375Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 474Lenticular74 million ly
apartIC 2208Lenticular75 million ly
apartIC 2213Lenticular76 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).