IC 80 NED02
IC 80 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
763 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
333k ly
across
12.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 763 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 80 NED02 as it looked roughly 763 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 333BLenticular38 million ly
apartIC 98Galaxy54 million ly
apartIC 60Spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 108Spiral69 million ly
apartIC 77Lenticular83 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 98Galaxy54 million ly
apartIC 60Spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral67 million ly
apartIC 108Spiral69 million ly
apartIC 77Lenticular83 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).