NGC 2570

NGC 2570

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
306 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 306 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 2570 as it looked roughly 306 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 2593Lenticular22 million ly
apart
IC 2382Lenticular25 million ly
apart
IC 2348Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 2239Lenticular29 million ly
apart
NGC 2581Spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 493Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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