IC 530
IC 530
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
231 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 231 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 530 as it looked roughly 231 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 2786Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 2773Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2948Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2406Lenticular37 million ly
apartNGC 2751Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 2728Spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2773Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 2948Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2406Lenticular37 million ly
apartNGC 2751Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 2728Spiral39 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).