IC 751
IC 751
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 751 as it looked roughly 440 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 752Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 711Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 709Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 708Elliptical60 million ly
apartNGC 4187Elliptical66 million ly
apartIC 712Elliptical66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 711Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 709Elliptical60 million ly
apartIC 708Elliptical60 million ly
apartNGC 4187Elliptical66 million ly
apartIC 712Elliptical66 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).