IC 603
IC 603
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 603 as it looked roughly 255 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 599Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3243Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 609Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3142Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 3110Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3101Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3243Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 609Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 3142Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 3110Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 3101Spiral26 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).