IC 920
IC 920
IC 920 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 379 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 96,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 379 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
379 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 379 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 920 as it looked roughly 379 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 927Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 924Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5442Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 5306Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 5232Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 969Lenticular62 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 924Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5442Barred spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 5306Lenticular50 million ly
apartNGC 5232Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 969Lenticular62 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).