IC 2606

IC 2606

IC 2606 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Leo Minor about 358 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 7,725 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
358 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
7,725 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 358 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2606 as it looked roughly 358 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 3468Lenticular22 million ly
apart
NGC 3334Lenticular25 million ly
apart
NGC 3569Lenticular33 million ly
apart
NGC 3374Spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 2566Lenticular36 million ly
apart
IC 2568Barred spiral37 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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