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
apartNGC 3468Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3374Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3677Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 2606Lenticular44 million ly
apartNGC 3478Barred spiral44 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3468Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 3374Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 3677Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 2606Lenticular44 million ly
apartNGC 3478Barred spiral44 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).