IC 566
IC 566
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
510 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 510 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 566 as it looked roughly 510 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
IC 589Elliptical60 million ly
apartNGC 2864Barred spiral84 million ly
apartIC 614Spiral89 million ly
apartIC 608Lenticular94 million ly
apartIC 569Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 2868Elliptical110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2864Barred spiral84 million ly
apartIC 614Spiral89 million ly
apartIC 608Lenticular94 million ly
apartIC 569Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 2868Elliptical110 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).