IC 861
IC 861
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
530 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 530 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 861 as it looked roughly 530 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 5098 NED01Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED01Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED02Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4188Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4201Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED01Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4187Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED02Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4188Barred spiral26 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).