IC 1578
IC 1578
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
318 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 318 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1578 as it looked roughly 318 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 1579Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 230Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 235BElliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 232Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 235ALenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 230Spiral8.5 million ly
apartNGC 235BElliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 232Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 235ALenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral38 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).