IC 683
IC 683
IC 683 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo about 720 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 720 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
720 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
144k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 720 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 683 as it looked roughly 720 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 3647Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 686Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 678Elliptical71 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 2862Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 2648Barred spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 686Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 678Elliptical71 million ly
apartIC 2829Spiral100 million ly
apartIC 2862Elliptical100 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).