IC 620
IC 620
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
476 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 476 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 620 as it looked roughly 476 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 3253Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 615Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 613Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 612Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 3357Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 3217Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 615Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 613Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 612Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 3357Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 3217Spiral37 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).