IC 2584
IC 2584
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
119 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 119 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2584 as it looked roughly 119 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 3258CSpiral2.4 million ly
apartNGC 3273Lenticular2.6 million ly
apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 3281DBarred spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 3260Elliptical5.4 million ly
apartNGC 3281BElliptical6.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3273Lenticular2.6 million ly
apartNGC 3258DBarred spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 3281DBarred spiral3.9 million ly
apartNGC 3260Elliptical5.4 million ly
apartNGC 3281BElliptical6.0 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).