IC 316 NED02
IC 316 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · S?
138 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
43k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 138 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 316 NED02 as it looked roughly 138 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 316 NED01Galaxy420,000 ly
apartIC 292Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 1268Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1171Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1174Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 284Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 292Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 1268Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 1171Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1174Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 284Spiral15 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).