IC 525
IC 525
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 525 as it looked roughly 268 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 533Galaxy24 million ly
apartIC 531Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2876Lenticular41 million ly
apartIC 2471Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 2861Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 2481Barred spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 531Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2876Lenticular41 million ly
apartIC 2471Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 2861Barred spiral44 million ly
apartIC 2481Barred spiral44 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).