IC 949
IC 949
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sd
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
144k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 949 as it looked roughly 389 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 916Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 910Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 909Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4322Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4342Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4332Lenticular26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 910Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 909Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4322Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4342Spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4332Lenticular26 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).