NGC 2504
NGC 2504
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
121 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
22k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 121 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2504 as it looked roughly 121 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 2327Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 2731Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2644Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2574Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 2377Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 2329Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2731Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 2644Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 2574Barred spiral36 million ly
apartNGC 2377Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 2329Spiral37 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).