IC 2340
IC 2340
IC 2340 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cancer about 377 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 377 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
377 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 377 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2340 as it looked roughly 377 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 2572Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 2363Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2373Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2620Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 501Barred spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 2576Spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2363Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2373Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2620Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 501Barred spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 2576Spiral49 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).