IC 971
IC 971
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
155 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 155 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 971 as it looked roughly 155 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 4358Barred spiral310,000 ly
apartNGC 5605Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5324Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5369Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5468Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5472Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5605Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5324Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5369Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 5468Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5472Spiral25 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).