IC 674

IC 674

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
350 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 350 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 674 as it looked roughly 350 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 3614ASpiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 3468Lenticular22 million ly
apart
NGC 3374Spiral26 million ly
apart
NGC 3677Lenticular26 million ly
apart
IC 2606Lenticular44 million ly
apart
NGC 3478Barred spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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