NGC 2667B

NGC 2667B

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
203 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 203 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2667B as it looked roughly 203 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 2672Elliptical770,000 ly
apart
IC 2414Elliptical2.1 million ly
apart
NGC 2677Elliptical4.4 million ly
apart
NGC 2643Lenticular12 million ly
apart
NGC 2625Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 2624Elliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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