IC 2702
IC 2702
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
17.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 2702 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 2734Barred spiral62 million ly
apartIC 2716Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2788Galaxy71 million ly
apartIC 2771Spiral76 million ly
apartIC 2796 NED02Galaxy79 million ly
apartIC 2845Lenticular80 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2716Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2788Galaxy71 million ly
apartIC 2771Spiral76 million ly
apartIC 2796 NED02Galaxy79 million ly
apartIC 2845Lenticular80 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).