IC 1420 NED02
IC 1420 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
67 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
17k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 67 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1420 NED02 as it looked roughly 67 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 7241Barred spiral3.7 million ly
apartIC 1420 NED01Spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7137Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7177Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1420 NED01Spiral6.5 million ly
apartNGC 7339Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7137Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 7177Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 7332Lenticular14 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).