IC 2548
IC 2548
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
207 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 207 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2548 as it looked roughly 207 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 2573Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3333Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3276Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3302Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 2578Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3333Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2582Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 3276Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3302Lenticular31 million ly
apartIC 2578Spiral31 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).