IC 531
IC 531
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
244 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 244 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 531 as it looked roughly 244 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 2861Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 2481Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2900Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 533Galaxy28 million ly
apartIC 525Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2960Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2481Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 2900Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 533Galaxy28 million ly
apartIC 525Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2960Spiral32 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).