IC 292
IC 292
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
140 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 140 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 292 as it looked roughly 140 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
IC 316 NED02Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 316 NED01Galaxy6.0 million ly
apartNGC 1268Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1171Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1174Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 284Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 316 NED01Galaxy6.0 million ly
apartNGC 1268Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1171Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1174Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 284Spiral15 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).