IC 789
IC 789
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
347 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 347 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 789 as it looked roughly 347 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 4465Spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 4410CLenticular9.6 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral9.9 million ly
apartIC 3271Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3150Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4410BLenticular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4410CLenticular9.6 million ly
apartNGC 4410ASpiral9.9 million ly
apartIC 3271Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3150Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4410BLenticular12 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).