IC 2550
IC 2550
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
223 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 223 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2550 as it looked roughly 223 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 3204Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3126Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3251Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2561Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 3323Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3074Spiral35 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3126Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 3251Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 2561Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 3323Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 3074Spiral35 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).