IC 582
IC 582
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 582 as it looked roughly 355 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 583Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 3040 NED02Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 581Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3088BBarred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2941Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 2988Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3040 NED02Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 581Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3088BBarred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 2941Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 2988Barred spiral32 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).