IC 1532
IC 1532
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
85 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 85 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1532 as it looked roughly 85 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 7697Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 7661Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5176Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 406Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7689Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 802Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7661Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 5176Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 406Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 7689Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 802Lenticular22 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).