IC 1575
IC 1575
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
265 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 265 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1575 as it looked roughly 265 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 268Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 293Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 325Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1571Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 327Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 227Elliptical20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 293Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 325Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1571Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 327Barred spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 227Elliptical20 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).