IC 1472
IC 1472
IC 1472 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 357 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 100,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 357 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
357 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 357 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1472 as it looked roughly 357 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 7540Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 7551Galaxy14 million ly
apartNGC 7442Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7432Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7627Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 7505Lenticular45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7551Galaxy14 million ly
apartNGC 7442Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 7432Elliptical31 million ly
apartNGC 7627Spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 7505Lenticular45 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).