IC 2439
IC 2439
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2439 as it looked roughly 199 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 2428Spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 2766Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2421Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2649Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2926Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2942Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2766Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2421Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 2649Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2926Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2942Spiral24 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).