IC 661
IC 661
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
557 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
125k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 557 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 661 as it looked roughly 557 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 662Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 660Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 649 NED02Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 671Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 649 NED01Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 655Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 660Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 649 NED02Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 671Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 649 NED01Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 655Barred spiral27 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).