IC 1008 NED01
IC 1008 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
428 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 428 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1008 NED01 as it looked roughly 428 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 1008 NED02Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4425Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4408Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4427Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4423Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4425Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4408Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4427Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4423Barred spiral16 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).