IC 2958
IC 2958
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
483 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 483 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2958 as it looked roughly 483 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 3880Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 3878Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2960Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2946Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3871Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 2952Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3878Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2960Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2946Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3871Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 2952Barred spiral33 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).