IC 2249
IC 2249
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
415 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 415 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2249 as it looked roughly 415 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 2576Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2621Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 2622Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 485Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 484Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 482Spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2621Spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 2622Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 485Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 484Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 482Spiral50 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).