IC 501
IC 501
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
348 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 348 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 501 as it looked roughly 348 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 2254Lenticular3.2 million ly
apartIC 2230Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 496Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2373Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2620Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2363Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2230Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 496Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2373Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 2620Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 2363Barred spiral33 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).