IC 510 NED02
IC 510 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
506 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
134k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 506 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 510 NED02 as it looked roughly 506 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 514Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 516Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 2616Lenticular79 million ly
apartIC 498Barred spiral86 million ly
apartIC 515Lenticular88 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 516Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral51 million ly
apartNGC 2616Lenticular79 million ly
apartIC 498Barred spiral86 million ly
apartIC 515Lenticular88 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).