IC 1451
IC 1451
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
112k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1451 as it looked roughly 422 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 1453Spiral50 million ly
apartNGC 7269Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1471Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1436Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 1479Elliptical64 million ly
apartNGC 7308Elliptical65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7269Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1471Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1436Elliptical59 million ly
apartIC 1479Elliptical64 million ly
apartNGC 7308Elliptical65 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).