IC 578
IC 578
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
416 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 416 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 578 as it looked roughly 416 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 577Spiral3.2 million ly
apartNGC 3016Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 595Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 2940Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3016Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3019Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 595Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 2940Elliptical37 million ly
apartIC 596Barred spiral37 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).