IC 563
IC 563
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
280 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 280 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 563 as it looked roughly 280 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 564Spiral1.4 million ly
apartIC 561Spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 3047AElliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical26 million ly
apartIC 590 NED01Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 3017Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 561Spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 3047AElliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical26 million ly
apartIC 590 NED01Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 3017Elliptical31 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).