NGC 2495
NGC 2495
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
392 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 392 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2495 as it looked roughly 392 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 2212Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 2375Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2227Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2400Spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 2373Barred spiral68 million ly
apartIC 2384Lenticular69 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2375Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2227Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2400Spiral66 million ly
apartNGC 2373Barred spiral68 million ly
apartIC 2384Lenticular69 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).