IC 350
IC 350
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
440 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 440 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 350 as it looked roughly 440 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 1445Lenticular22 million ly
apartNGC 1364Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 1363Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 1413Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 328Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1447Lenticular33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1364Spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 1363Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 1413Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 328Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1447Lenticular33 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).