IC 2506
IC 2506
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
468 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 468 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2506 as it looked roughly 468 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 2505Spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 2498Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2495Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2498Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 2495Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2981Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 558Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 2466Elliptical46 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).