NGC 2503
NGC 2503
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
257 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 257 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2503 as it looked roughly 257 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 2338Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2339Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 492Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2290Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2219Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2217Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2339Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 492Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2290Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2219Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 2217Spiral26 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).