IC 235
IC 235
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
409 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
46k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 409 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 235 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
NGC 1030Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 248Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1807Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1854Lenticular38 million ly
apartIC 1804Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 1802Elliptical43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 248Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1807Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 1854Lenticular38 million ly
apartIC 1804Elliptical42 million ly
apartIC 1802Elliptical43 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).