IC 1460
IC 1460
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
340 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 340 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1460 as it looked roughly 340 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 7367Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 7455Galaxy25 million ly
apartNGC 7362Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 7451Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7430Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 7374Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7455Galaxy25 million ly
apartNGC 7362Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 7451Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 7430Lenticular38 million ly
apartNGC 7374Barred spiral41 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).