IC 756
IC 756
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
290 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
144k ly
across
17.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 290 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 756 as it looked roughly 290 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 4043Lenticular9.4 million ly
apartNGC 4029Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3914Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4075Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 4073Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 4058Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4029Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 3914Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4075Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 4073Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 4058Lenticular21 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).