IC 858
IC 858
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
326 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
148k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 326 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 858 as it looked roughly 326 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 859Elliptical1,000,000 ly
apartIC 881Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 857Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 882Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 867Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 869 NED01Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 881Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 857Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 882Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 867Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 869 NED01Spiral21 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).