IC 2716
IC 2716
IC 2716 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 1.1 billion ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 1.1 billion years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
17.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 2716 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 spiral47 million ly
apartIC 2864Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 2788Galaxy54 million ly
apartIC 2796 NED02Galaxy57 million ly
apartIC 2845Lenticular60 million ly
apartIC 2724Barred spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2864Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 2788Galaxy54 million ly
apartIC 2796 NED02Galaxy57 million ly
apartIC 2845Lenticular60 million ly
apartIC 2724Barred spiral64 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).