IC 1444
IC 1444
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
395 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 395 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1444 as it looked roughly 395 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 7312Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1437Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1418Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1423Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 5241Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5223Spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1437Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1418Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 1423Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 5241Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 5223Spiral40 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).