IC 886
IC 886
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
212k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 886 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 5285Elliptical180 million ly
apartIC 833Galaxy300 million ly
apartNGC 4991Barred spiral330 million ly
apartIC 3602Elliptical350 million ly
apartNGC 4453 NED02Spiral360 million ly
apartIC 3625Lenticular360 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 833Galaxy300 million ly
apartNGC 4991Barred spiral330 million ly
apartIC 3602Elliptical350 million ly
apartNGC 4453 NED02Spiral360 million ly
apartIC 3625Lenticular360 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).