IC 1432

IC 1432

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
836 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 836 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1432 as it looked roughly 836 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
NGC 7164Lenticular92 million ly
apart
IC 1385Spiral190 million ly
apart
IC 1370Galaxy230 million ly
apart
IC 1362Elliptical230 million ly
apart
IC 1366Lenticular240 million ly
apart
IC 1365 NED01Elliptical240 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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