IC 2491
IC 2491
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
381 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 381 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2491 as it looked roughly 381 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 2839Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 3013Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2825Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2468Lenticular28 million ly
apartIC 2467Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 2473Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3013Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 2825Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2468Lenticular28 million ly
apartIC 2467Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 2473Barred spiral31 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).