IC 379
IC 379
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
428 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
116k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 428 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 379 as it looked roughly 428 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 1575Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 378Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 370Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 377Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 362Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 1661Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 378Elliptical38 million ly
apartIC 370Spiral40 million ly
apartIC 377Elliptical40 million ly
apartIC 362Elliptical47 million ly
apartNGC 1661Barred spiral49 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).