IC 523
IC 523
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
408 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 408 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 523 as it looked roughly 408 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 2720Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 2651Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 506Elliptical66 million ly
apartIC 2398Lenticular67 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2651Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2420Elliptical45 million ly
apartIC 521Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 506Elliptical66 million ly
apartIC 2398Lenticular67 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).