NGC 2981
NGC 2981
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
484 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 484 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2981 as it looked roughly 484 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 2495Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2498Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 2506Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2505Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2475Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical52 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2498Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 2506Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 2505Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2475Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical52 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).