IC 1224

IC 1224

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
474 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
177k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 474 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1224 as it looked roughly 474 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 4619Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4620Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1219Lenticular39 million ly
apart
IC 4623Barred spiral45 million ly
apart
NGC 6243Spiral47 million ly
apart
NGC 6233Lenticular49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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