IC 300
IC 300
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
251 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 251 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 300 as it looked roughly 251 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 1273Lenticular5.9 million ly
apartNGC 1267Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartPerseus ALenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 1175Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 288Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1224Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1267Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartPerseus ALenticular8.0 million ly
apartNGC 1175Lenticular10 million ly
apartIC 288Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1224Elliptical12 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).