IC 637
IC 637
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
685 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 685 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 637 as it looked roughly 685 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 2629Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 2694Barred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 3461Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 2679Lenticular110 million ly
apartIC 2704Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 2648Barred spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2694Barred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 3461Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 2679Lenticular110 million ly
apartIC 2704Spiral110 million ly
apartIC 2648Barred spiral110 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).