IC 1488
IC 1488
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
576 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
181k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 576 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1488 as it looked roughly 576 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 7649Elliptical9.5 million ly
apartNGC 7647Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy32 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED01Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7647Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 5319Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 7651 NED01Elliptical22 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED02Galaxy32 million ly
apartNGC 7525 NED01Elliptical37 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).