IC 1347
IC 1347
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
410 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
169k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 410 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1347 as it looked roughly 410 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 1348Galaxy1,000,000 ly
apartIC 1353Galaxy2.4 million ly
apartIC 1349Lenticular3.8 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy3.9 million ly
apartIC 1346Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7010Elliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1353Galaxy2.4 million ly
apartIC 1349Lenticular3.8 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy3.9 million ly
apartIC 1346Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 7010Elliptical13 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).