IC 533
IC 533
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
267 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 267 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 533 as it looked roughly 267 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 2876Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 525Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2471Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 531Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2980Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3014Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 525Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 2471Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 531Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2980Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3014Barred spiral41 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).