IC 962
IC 962
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
290 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 290 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 962 as it looked roughly 290 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
NGC 5409Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5416Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5431Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5424Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5423Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5411Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5416Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5431Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5424Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 5423Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5411Elliptical22 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).