IC 1401
IC 1401
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
220 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 220 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1401 as it looked roughly 220 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 7198Lenticular20 million ly
apartIC 1413Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7102Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7156Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7215Lenticular39 million ly
apartNGC 7046Spiral39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1413Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 7102Barred spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7156Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7215Lenticular39 million ly
apartNGC 7046Spiral39 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).