IC 441
IC 441
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
104 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
37k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 104 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 441 as it looked roughly 104 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 2110Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 2076Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2212Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 2211Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 2196Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 2227Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 2076Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 2212Lenticular14 million ly
apartNGC 2211Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 2196Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 2227Spiral20 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).