IC 273
IC 273
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
151 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 151 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 273 as it looked roughly 151 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 1153Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartNGC 1137Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1211Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 277Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1107Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 1090Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1137Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1211Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 277Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 1107Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 1090Barred spiral23 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).