IC 2543 NED01
IC 2543 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
750 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
161k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 750 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2543 NED01 as it looked roughly 750 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 2525Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 2564Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 3219Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 3099Elliptical80 million ly
apartIC 2503Barred spiral87 million ly
apartIC 2502Spiral87 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2564Elliptical41 million ly
apartNGC 3219Elliptical46 million ly
apartNGC 3099Elliptical80 million ly
apartIC 2503Barred spiral87 million ly
apartIC 2502Spiral87 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).