IC 2426
IC 2426
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
181 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 181 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2426 as it looked roughly 181 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 2713Barred spiral960,000 ly
apartNGC 2729Lenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 2723Lenticular7.7 million ly
apartNGC 2765Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartNGC 2718Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2716Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2729Lenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 2723Lenticular7.7 million ly
apartNGC 2765Lenticular9.0 million ly
apartNGC 2718Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 2716Lenticular13 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).