IC 590 NED02
IC 590 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
297 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 297 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 590 NED02 as it looked roughly 297 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 NED01Elliptical4.7 million ly
apartIC 594Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 3083Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3047AElliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 594Barred spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 3083Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3047AElliptical20 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).