IC 649 NED02
IC 649 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
552 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 552 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 649 NED02 as it looked roughly 552 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 649 NED01Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 661Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 662Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 660Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 655Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 671Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 661Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 662Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 660Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 655Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 671Barred spiral40 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).