IC 378
IC 378
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 378 as it looked roughly 420 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 377Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 1575Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 362Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 367Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 1561Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 1565Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1575Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 362Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 367Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 1561Elliptical30 million ly
apartNGC 1565Spiral31 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).