IC 388 NED01
IC 388 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
40k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 388 NED01 as it looked roughly 255 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 1603Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 1606Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 382Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 1632Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 1612Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 2097Irregular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1606Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 382Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 1632Lenticular24 million ly
apartNGC 1612Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 2097Irregular26 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).