IC 58
IC 58
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
296 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 296 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 58 as it looked roughly 296 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 56Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 263Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 369Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 301Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1622Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 263Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 369Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 301Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1622Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular28 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).