IC 2551
IC 2551
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
296 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 296 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2551 as it looked roughly 296 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 3209Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 3232Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3270Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3234Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 2583Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 3068Elliptical27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3232Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3270Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3234Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 2583Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 3068Elliptical27 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).