IC 649 NED01
IC 649 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
540 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
110k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 540 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 649 NED01 as it looked roughly 540 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 649 NED02Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 662Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 661Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 660Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 655Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 671Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 662Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 661Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 660Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 655Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 671Barred spiral41 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).