IC 380
IC 380
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
240 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
53k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 240 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 380 as it looked roughly 240 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 382Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 1632Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 1614Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1646Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 1710Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 1648Lenticular29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1632Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 1614Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 1646Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 1710Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 1648Lenticular29 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).