IC 734 NED01
IC 734 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
299k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 734 NED01 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 3520Elliptical260 million ly
apartIC 2748Elliptical340 million ly
apartIC 2770Barred spiral340 million ly
apartIC 2796 NED02Galaxy350 million ly
apartIC 2790Spiral360 million ly
apartIC 2756Barred spiral360 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2748Elliptical340 million ly
apartIC 2770Barred spiral340 million ly
apartIC 2796 NED02Galaxy350 million ly
apartIC 2790Spiral360 million ly
apartIC 2756Barred spiral360 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).