IC 1654
IC 1654
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1654 as it looked roughly 227 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 444Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 452Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartIC 1666Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 420Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 387Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 449Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 452Barred spiral7.1 million ly
apartIC 1666Spiral9.9 million ly
apartNGC 420Lenticular10 million ly
apartNGC 387Elliptical11 million ly
apartNGC 449Barred spiral12 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).