IC 2518
IC 2518
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
238 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
49k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 238 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2518 as it looked roughly 238 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 2516Elliptical3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3074Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3006Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 2998Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 2515Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3074Spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3006Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 2998Spiral33 million ly
apartIC 2515Barred spiral33 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).