IC 365
IC 365
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
345 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 345 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 365 as it looked roughly 345 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 2057Spiral5.9 million ly
apartNGC 1409Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 383Elliptical64 million ly
apartNGC 1671Lenticular66 million ly
apartIC 329Elliptical73 million ly
apartIC 331Elliptical74 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1409Lenticular64 million ly
apartIC 383Elliptical64 million ly
apartNGC 1671Lenticular66 million ly
apartIC 329Elliptical73 million ly
apartIC 331Elliptical74 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).