IC 983
IC 983
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
254 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
171k ly
across
12.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 254 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 983 as it looked roughly 254 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 982Lenticular910,000 ly
apartNGC 5490CBarred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 5504CSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1000Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5490CBarred spiral9.8 million ly
apartNGC 5504CSpiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5504BBarred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1000Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5504Barred spiral15 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).