IC 2193

IC 2193

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
234 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 234 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2193 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 2393Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 2196Elliptical13 million ly
apart
IC 2199Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 2201Spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 2410Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 2185Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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