IC 1490
IC 1490
IC 1490 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces about 260 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 260 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
260 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 260 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1490 as it looked roughly 260 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 3Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 50Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 47Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 54Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 5356Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7699Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 50Elliptical23 million ly
apartNGC 47Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 54Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 5356Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 7699Spiral29 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).