IC 747
IC 747
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
265 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 265 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 747 as it looked roughly 265 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 3967Elliptical3.6 million ly
apartNGC 3959Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3905Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3854Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2974Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3858Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 3959Spiral4.1 million ly
apartNGC 3905Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 3854Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 2974Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 3858Barred spiral15 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).