IC 968 NED01
IC 968 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
336 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 336 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 968 NED01 as it looked roughly 336 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 5392Lenticular6.7 million ly
apartNGC 5400Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5345Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 968 NED02Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5478Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 969Lenticular29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5400Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 5345Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 968 NED02Elliptical18 million ly
apartNGC 5478Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 969Lenticular29 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).