IC 2826
IC 2826
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
281 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 281 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2826 as it looked roughly 281 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 2804Barred spiral2.8 million ly
apartIC 2843Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 2893 NED02Spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 2708Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 2689Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2698Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2843Spiral3.8 million ly
apartIC 2893 NED02Spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 2708Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 2689Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2698Spiral13 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).