IC 1520
IC 1520
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
421 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 421 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1520 as it looked roughly 421 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 7776Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7813Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7808Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular53 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular56 million ly
apartNGC 7730Barred spiral59 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7813Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 7808Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 1521Lenticular53 million ly
apartIC 1494Lenticular56 million ly
apartNGC 7730Barred spiral59 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).