IC 668
IC 668
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
462 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 462 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 668 as it looked roughly 462 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 667Elliptical1.7 million ly
apartIC 2745Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 2718Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 664Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2810Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 3473Barred spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2745Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 2718Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 664Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 2810Barred spiral40 million ly
apartNGC 3473Barred spiral42 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).