IC 655
IC 655
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
572 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
166k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 572 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 655 as it looked roughly 572 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 660Elliptical20 million ly
apartIC 649 NED02Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 661Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 662Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 649 NED01Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 671Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 649 NED02Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 661Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 662Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 649 NED01Barred spiral36 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).