IC 2505
IC 2505
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
460 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 460 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2505 as it looked roughly 460 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 2506Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 2498Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 2495Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2498Barred spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 2495Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical44 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).