IC 602
IC 602
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
176 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 176 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 602 as it looked roughly 176 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 601Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 2987Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3042Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3075Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3434Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3053Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2987Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3042Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 3075Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3434Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 3053Spiral33 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).