IC 590 NED01
IC 590 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
292 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 292 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 590 NED01 as it looked roughly 292 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 590 NED02Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartIC 594Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3047AElliptical18 million ly
apartIC 593Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 594Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 3047AElliptical18 million ly
apartIC 593Barred spiral19 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).