IC 1519

IC 1519

IC 1519 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pegasus about 413 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 413 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E-S0
413 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 413 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1519 as it looked roughly 413 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 1526Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 7675Elliptical58 million ly
apart
NGC 7674Barred spiral58 million ly
apart
IC 5374Spiral58 million ly
apart
IC 5375Spiral59 million ly
apart
IC 1527Spiral61 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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