IC 850
IC 850
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 850 as it looked roughly 255 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 849Spiral2.5 million ly
apartNGC 4996Lenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4999Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4224Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5104Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4975Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4996Lenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 4999Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4224Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5104Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4975Lenticular19 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).