IC 803 NED02
IC 803 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
366 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 366 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 803 NED02 as it looked roughly 366 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 3615Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3484Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3489Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3440Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 3280Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 3235Spiral34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3484Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 3489Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 3440Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 3280Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 3235Spiral34 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).