IC 851
IC 851
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
124 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
13.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 124 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 851 as it looked roughly 124 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 5012Spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 5016Spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5116Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5016Spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 3740Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4961Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 4793Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5116Barred spiral18 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).