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
apartIC 654Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 3537 NED01Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 654Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 3360Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 3280AElliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 3537 NED01Spiral37 million ly
apartNGC 3280CElliptical38 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).