IC 250
IC 250
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
501 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 501 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 250 as it looked roughly 501 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 1139Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 1048ABarred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 268Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 1048Lenticular59 million ly
apartNGC 1071Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 966Elliptical62 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1048ABarred spiral49 million ly
apartIC 268Spiral57 million ly
apartNGC 1048Lenticular59 million ly
apartNGC 1071Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 966Elliptical62 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).