IC 539
IC 539
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
326 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 326 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 539 as it looked roughly 326 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 2850Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 2897Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 2878Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 553Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2877Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 2937Elliptical33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2897Lenticular28 million ly
apartNGC 2878Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 553Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 2877Lenticular32 million ly
apartNGC 2937Elliptical33 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).