IC 743
IC 743
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
178 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 178 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 743 as it looked roughly 178 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 3942Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 3836 NED02Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4114Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4177Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3711Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3777Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3836 NED02Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 4114Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 4177Spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 3711Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 3777Spiral25 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).