IC 687
IC 687
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
470 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 470 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 687 as it looked roughly 470 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 712Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 709Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 708Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 711Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 3594Lenticular65 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral70 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 709Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 708Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 711Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 3594Lenticular65 million ly
apartNGC 3846Barred spiral70 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).