IC 792
IC 792
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
290 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 290 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 792 as it looked roughly 290 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 3442Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 3432Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3500Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4611Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3137Spiral24 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3432Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 3500Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3382Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 4611Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 3137Spiral24 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).