IC 853
IC 853
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
333 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 333 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 853 as it looked roughly 333 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 4932Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5040Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5164Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 4917Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5255Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 801Spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5040Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5164Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 4917Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5255Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 801Spiral39 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).