IC 2936
IC 2936
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
482 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 482 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2936 as it looked roughly 482 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 2945 NED01Elliptical4.4 million ly
apartIC 2914Spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 2840Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2810Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2745Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3828Elliptical33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2914Spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 2840Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2810Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2745Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3828Elliptical33 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).