IC 276

IC 276

IC 276 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus about 139 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 67,000 ly, about 67% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,017 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
139 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
3,017 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 139 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 276 as it looked roughly 139 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 1188Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 1199Elliptical12 million ly
apart
NGC 1190Lenticular16 million ly
apart
NGC 1125Lenticular16 million ly
apart
IC 285Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 1209Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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