IC 869 NED01
IC 869 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
330 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 330 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 869 NED01 as it looked roughly 330 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 867Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 866Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 885Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 5092Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 868Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 870Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 866Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 885Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 5092Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 868Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 870Spiral19 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).