IC 551
IC 551
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
399 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 399 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 551 as it looked roughly 399 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 2940Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 578Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral46 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 3062Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 578Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral42 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral46 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 3062Barred spiral49 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).