IC 2223
IC 2223
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
478 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 478 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2223 as it looked roughly 478 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 2222Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 2225Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2227Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2190Barred spiral64 million ly
apartNGC 2495Spiral88 million ly
apartIC 2212Lenticular91 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2225Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 2227Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 2190Barred spiral64 million ly
apartNGC 2495Spiral88 million ly
apartIC 2212Lenticular91 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).