IC 370
IC 370
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
461 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 461 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 370 as it looked roughly 461 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 369Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 1597Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 1575Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 376Galaxy28 million ly
apartNGC 1516ASpiral34 million ly
apartIC 377Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1597Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 1575Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 376Galaxy28 million ly
apartNGC 1516ASpiral34 million ly
apartIC 377Elliptical37 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).