IC 560
IC 560
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
86 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 86 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 560 as it looked roughly 86 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 3018Barred spiral2.3 million ly
apartNGC 3023Spiral2.8 million ly
apartNGC 2967Spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 3055Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 2974Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 2966Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3023Spiral2.8 million ly
apartNGC 2967Spiral3.3 million ly
apartNGC 3055Spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 2974Elliptical8.3 million ly
apartNGC 2966Spiral11 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).