IC 596
IC 596
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
442 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
124k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 442 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 596 as it looked roughly 442 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 3217Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 612Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 613Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 615Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 578Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 612Lenticular34 million ly
apartIC 613Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 615Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 577Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 578Spiral37 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).