IC 910

IC 910

IC 910 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 377 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 75,000 ly, about 75% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 8,133 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sab
377 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
75k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
8,133 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 377 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 910 as it looked roughly 377 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 909Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
IC 4322Elliptical15 million ly
apart
IC 916Elliptical18 million ly
apart
IC 949Spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 4297Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 4314Elliptical32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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