IC 404
IC 404
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 404 as it looked roughly 422 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 1875Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 1690Elliptical69 million ly
apartIC 383Elliptical72 million ly
apartIC 2112Galaxy91 million ly
apartNGC 1661Barred spiral99 million ly
apartIC 2057Spiral120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1690Elliptical69 million ly
apartIC 383Elliptical72 million ly
apartIC 2112Galaxy91 million ly
apartNGC 1661Barred spiral99 million ly
apartIC 2057Spiral120 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).