IC 650

IC 650

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
377 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 377 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 650 as it looked roughly 377 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
NGC 3452Spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 654Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 3360Spiral25 million ly
apart
NGC 3280AElliptical35 million ly
apart
NGC 3537 NED01Spiral37 million ly
apart
NGC 3280CElliptical38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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