NGC 2550A
NGC 2550A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2550A as it looked roughly 170 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 511Lenticular4.3 million ly
apartNGC 2523CElliptical4.4 million ly
apartNGC 2646Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 2629Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartIC 520Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 2614Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2523CElliptical4.4 million ly
apartNGC 2646Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 2629Elliptical5.2 million ly
apartIC 520Spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 2614Spiral9.2 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).