IC 872
IC 872
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
330 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 330 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 872 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
NGC 5027Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartNGC 5118Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5125Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5209Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5210Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5208Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5118Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5125Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5209Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 5210Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5208Lenticular26 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).