NGC 2980
NGC 2980
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
269 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
13.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 269 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2980 as it looked roughly 269 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 575Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 586Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 574Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 2876Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 3014Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3022Lenticular32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 586Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 574Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 2876Lenticular30 million ly
apartNGC 3014Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 3022Lenticular32 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).