IC 550
IC 550
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
230 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 230 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 550 as it looked roughly 230 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 2969Spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 562Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3064Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3110Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2881 NED02Galaxy26 million ly
apartNGC 2884Lenticular28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 562Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 3064Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3110Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 2881 NED02Galaxy26 million ly
apartNGC 2884Lenticular28 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).