IC 1348
IC 1348
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
409 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 409 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1348 as it looked roughly 409 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 1347Lenticular1,000,000 ly
apartIC 1353Galaxy1.6 million ly
apartIC 1349Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy4.9 million ly
apartIC 1346Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7010Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1353Galaxy1.6 million ly
apartIC 1349Lenticular4.8 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy4.9 million ly
apartIC 1346Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7010Elliptical12 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).