IC 956 NED02
IC 956 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
766 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 766 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 956 NED02 as it looked roughly 766 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 956 NED01Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4331Barred spiral78 million ly
apartIC 4410Barred spiral99 million ly
apartIC 1004Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 961Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 4417Elliptical110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4331Barred spiral78 million ly
apartIC 4410Barred spiral99 million ly
apartIC 1004Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 961Barred spiral110 million ly
apartIC 4417Elliptical110 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).