IC 593
IC 593
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
282 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 282 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 593 as it looked roughly 282 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 592Barred spiral820,000 ly
apartNGC 3090Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3093Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3092Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 594Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3090Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3093Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 3092Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 594Barred spiral18 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).