IC 2568

IC 2568

IC 2568 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 365 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 120,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 8,052 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBa
365 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
117k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
8,052 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 365 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2568 as it looked roughly 365 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 2566Lenticular3.2 million ly
apart
NGC 3150Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 2606Lenticular37 million ly
apart
NGC 3334Lenticular37 million ly
apart
NGC 3237Lenticular42 million ly
apart
NGC 3179Lenticular43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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