IC 1504
IC 1504
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
293 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 293 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1504 as it looked roughly 293 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 7739Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 7704Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 1522Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7738Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1481Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7696Lenticular31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7704Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 1522Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 7738Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1481Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7696Lenticular31 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).