IC 2857
IC 2857
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
294 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
153k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 294 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2857 as it looked roughly 294 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 2850Spiral520,000 ly
apartIC 2853Spiral680,000 ly
apartIC 2867Spiral1.2 million ly
apartIC 696Spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 698Lenticular3.7 million ly
apartIC 699Spiral5.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2853Spiral680,000 ly
apartIC 2867Spiral1.2 million ly
apartIC 696Spiral1.7 million ly
apartIC 698Lenticular3.7 million ly
apartIC 699Spiral5.9 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).