IC 1428
IC 1428
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
572 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 572 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1428 as it looked roughly 572 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 7222Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1399Galaxy53 million ly
apartIC 1446Elliptical75 million ly
apartIC 1380Galaxy96 million ly
apartIC 1379Galaxy100 million ly
apartIC 1398Spiral110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1399Galaxy53 million ly
apartIC 1446Elliptical75 million ly
apartIC 1380Galaxy96 million ly
apartIC 1379Galaxy100 million ly
apartIC 1398Spiral110 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).