IC 2382
IC 2382
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
284 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 284 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2382 as it looked roughly 284 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 2348Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 2239Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 2581Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2596Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2570Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2290Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2239Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 2581Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 2596Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2570Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2290Spiral26 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).