IC 2508
IC 2508
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
566 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 566 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2508 as it looked roughly 566 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 2496Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3012Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 2483Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 2549Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 2475Barred spiral79 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral85 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3012Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 2483Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 2549Barred spiral56 million ly
apartIC 2475Barred spiral79 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral85 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).