IC 592
IC 592
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
282 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 282 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 592 as it looked roughly 282 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 593Barred spiral820,000 ly
apartNGC 3090Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 3093Elliptical9.9 million ly
apartNGC 3092Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3101Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3090Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 3093Elliptical9.9 million ly
apartNGC 3092Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 587Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3101Spiral17 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).