IC 1525
IC 1525
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
236 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
13.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 236 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1525 as it looked roughly 236 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 48Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 49Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1536Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 1534Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1535Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 51Lenticular27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 49Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1536Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 1534Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1535Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 51Lenticular27 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).