IC 628
IC 628
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
399 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 399 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 628 as it looked roughly 399 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 634Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 3362Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3341Galaxy20 million ly
apartNGC 3349Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3326Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 621Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3362Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 3341Galaxy20 million ly
apartNGC 3349Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 3326Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 621Spiral24 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).