NGC 2555
NGC 2555
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
204 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 204 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2555 as it looked roughly 204 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 494Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 503Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 2561Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2615Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2618Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 503Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 504Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 2561Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2615Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2618Spiral23 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).