IC 442
IC 442
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 442 as it looked roughly 199 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 440Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 1544Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 2258Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 2314Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 2174Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1573Elliptical39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1544Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 2258Lenticular31 million ly
apartNGC 2314Elliptical32 million ly
apartIC 2174Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1573Elliptical39 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).