IC 2465

IC 2465

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
482 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 482 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2465 as it looked roughly 482 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 2466Elliptical22 million ly
apart
IC 2464Spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 2495Spiral42 million ly
apart
IC 2443Lenticular44 million ly
apart
IC 2441 NED01Elliptical44 million ly
apart
IC 2470Lenticular44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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