IC 272
IC 272
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
410 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 410 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 272 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 270Elliptical1.5 million ly
apartNGC 1157Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1150Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1866Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1151Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 1158Lenticular16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1157Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1150Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1866Elliptical15 million ly
apartNGC 1151Elliptical16 million ly
apartNGC 1158Lenticular16 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).