IC 2956
IC 2956
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
423 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 423 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2956 as it looked roughly 423 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 3826Elliptical5.0 million ly
apartNGC 3785Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 710Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 3964Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 3739Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 3746Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3785Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 710Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 3964Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 3739Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 3746Spiral37 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).