IC 941
IC 941
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
325 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 325 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 941 as it looked roughly 325 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 4287 NED01Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4241Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4244Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4297Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 885Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 5092Elliptical38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4241Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4244Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4297Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 885Elliptical38 million ly
apartNGC 5092Elliptical38 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).