IC 569
IC 569
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
485 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 485 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 569 as it looked roughly 485 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 3080Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3048 NED01Irregular50 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral58 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 578Spiral70 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral70 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3048 NED01Irregular50 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral58 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral66 million ly
apartIC 578Spiral70 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral70 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).