IC 2496
IC 2496
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
576 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 576 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2496 as it looked roughly 576 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 2508Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 3012Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 2483Barred spiral45 million ly
apartIC 2549Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 2475Barred spiral88 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral99 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3012Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 2483Barred spiral45 million ly
apartIC 2549Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 2475Barred spiral88 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral99 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).