IC 909
IC 909
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
378 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 378 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 909 as it looked roughly 378 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 4322Elliptical7.6 million ly
apartIC 910Spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 916Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 949Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4314Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4297Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 910Spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 916Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 949Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4314Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4297Barred spiral28 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).