IC 837
IC 837
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
337 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 337 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 837 as it looked roughly 337 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 4859Lenticular4.6 million ly
apartNGC 4842BElliptical5.7 million ly
apartNGC 4842AElliptical6.8 million ly
apartNGC 4839Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartIC 3900Lenticular8.3 million ly
apartIC 832Elliptical8.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4842BElliptical5.7 million ly
apartNGC 4842AElliptical6.8 million ly
apartNGC 4839Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartIC 3900Lenticular8.3 million ly
apartIC 832Elliptical8.7 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).