IC 2495
IC 2495
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
470 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 470 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2495 as it looked roughly 470 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 2498Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 2506Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2505Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2506Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2505Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical40 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).