IC 600
IC 600
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBd
59 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
33k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 59 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 600 as it looked roughly 59 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 3169Spiral7.2 million ly
apartNGC 3156Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartNGC 3166Lenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 3165Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 3044Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 549Irregular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3156Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartNGC 3166Lenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 3165Spiral8.1 million ly
apartNGC 3044Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 549Irregular13 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).