IC 899
IC 899
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
305 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 305 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 899 as it looked roughly 305 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 5241Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartNGC 5203Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5232Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 908Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5133Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5146Elliptical27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5203Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5232Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 908Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5133Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5146Elliptical27 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).