IC 571
IC 571
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
397 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
82k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 397 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 571 as it looked roughly 397 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 572Spiral1,000,000 ly
apartIC 570Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 568Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3048 NED02Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2943Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 581Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 570Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 568Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3048 NED02Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 2943Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 581Spiral25 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).