IC 1408
IC 1408
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
250 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 250 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1408 as it looked roughly 250 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 7131Lenticular7.1 million ly
apartIC 1417Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 7165Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1412Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1404Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7105Lenticular24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1417Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartNGC 7165Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1412Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1404Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 7105Lenticular24 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).