IC 320
IC 320
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
326 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 326 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 320 as it looked roughly 326 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 1279Lenticular12 million ly
apartNGC 1283Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1294Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1902Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 1265Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 1274Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1283Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1294Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1902Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 1265Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 1274Elliptical29 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).