IC 924
IC 924
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
401 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 401 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 924 as it looked roughly 401 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 927Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 920Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5442Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 915Elliptical53 million ly
apartNGC 5306Lenticular68 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral69 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 920Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 5442Barred spiral38 million ly
apartIC 915Elliptical53 million ly
apartNGC 5306Lenticular68 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral69 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).