IC 587
IC 587
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
292 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 292 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 587 as it looked roughly 292 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 3093Elliptical7.5 million ly
apartNGC 3083Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 3090Elliptical9.2 million ly
apartIC 593Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 592Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3083Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 3090Elliptical9.2 million ly
apartIC 593Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 592Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3047BElliptical12 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).