IC 2475

IC 2475

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
505 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 505 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2475 as it looked roughly 505 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 2981Spiral40 million ly
apart
IC 2495Spiral43 million ly
apart
IC 2443Lenticular45 million ly
apart
IC 2498Barred spiral52 million ly
apart
IC 2465Lenticular52 million ly
apart
IC 2506Spiral54 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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