IC 572
IC 572
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
396 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 396 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 572 as it looked roughly 396 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 571Barred spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 570Spiral2.6 million ly
apartIC 568Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3048 NED02Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 581Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2943Elliptical25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 570Spiral2.6 million ly
apartIC 568Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3048 NED02Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 581Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 2943Elliptical25 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).