IC 700 NED03
IC 700 NED03
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · I
66 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
6k ly
across
17.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 66 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 700 NED03 as it looked roughly 66 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 700 NED01Irregular380,000 ly
apartIC 700 NED02Spiral1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3626Lenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 3655Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 3659Spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3592Spiral8.1 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 700 NED02Spiral1.1 million ly
apartNGC 3626Lenticular4.9 million ly
apartNGC 3655Spiral6.3 million ly
apartNGC 3659Spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 3592Spiral8.1 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).