IC 285
IC 285
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
152 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
64k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 152 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 285 as it looked roughly 152 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 1182Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 1196Lenticular6.9 million ly
apartNGC 1125Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 276Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 1114Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1242Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1196Lenticular6.9 million ly
apartNGC 1125Lenticular15 million ly
apartIC 276Lenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 1114Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 1242Barred spiral25 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).