IC 2188
IC 2188
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2188 as it looked roughly 389 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 2187Elliptical6.5 million ly
apartNGC 2407Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 2406Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 2398Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 474Lenticular50 million ly
apartIC 2191Elliptical53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2407Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 2406Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 2398Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 474Lenticular50 million ly
apartIC 2191Elliptical53 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).