IC 2795
IC 2795
IC 2795 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo about 730 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 730 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
730 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
17.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 730 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2795 as it looked roughly 730 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 2877Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 2802Galaxy27 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2704Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2862Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2694Barred spiral60 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2802Galaxy27 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2704Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2862Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2694Barred spiral60 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).