IC 700 NED04
IC 700 NED04
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · I
78 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
6k ly
across
18.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 78 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 700 NED04 as it looked roughly 78 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 3626Lenticular9.4 million ly
apartNGC 3655Spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 2763Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3712Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3629Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 700 NED03Irregular12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3655Spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 2763Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3712Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 3629Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 700 NED03Irregular12 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).