IC 577
IC 577
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
419 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 419 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 577 as it looked roughly 419 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 578Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 595Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 2940Elliptical38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3016Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 595Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 2940Elliptical38 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).