IC 2620
IC 2620
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2620 as it looked roughly 400 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 2615Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartIC 2619Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3545BElliptical16 million ly
apartIC 2616Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 3545AElliptical24 million ly
apartIC 2617Lenticular25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2619Elliptical5.5 million ly
apartNGC 3545BElliptical16 million ly
apartIC 2616Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 3545AElliptical24 million ly
apartIC 2617Lenticular25 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).