IC 902
IC 902
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
75 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
48k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 75 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 902 as it looked roughly 75 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 5301Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apartNGC 5377Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5475Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5372Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5443Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5422Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5377Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5475Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5372Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 5443Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5422Lenticular13 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).