IC 922

IC 922

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
930 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
211k ly
across
18.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 930 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 922 as it looked roughly 930 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 923Elliptical18 million ly
apart
IC 929Elliptical23 million ly
apart
IC 936Barred spiral47 million ly
apart
NGC 5391Elliptical160 million ly
apart
IC 4284Spiral160 million ly
apart
IC 4285Galaxy190 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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