IC 1579
IC 1579
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
316 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
94k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 316 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1579 as it looked roughly 316 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 1578Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 230Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 235BElliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 232Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 235ALenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 230Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 235BElliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 232Barred spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 235ALenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 247DBarred spiral43 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).