IC 401
IC 401
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
157 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 157 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 401 as it looked roughly 157 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 402Spiral3.0 million ly
apartNGC 1779Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 1752Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 400Galaxy17 million ly
apartNGC 1723Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 415Galaxy19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1779Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 1752Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 400Galaxy17 million ly
apartNGC 1723Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 415Galaxy19 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).