IC 1670A
IC 1670A
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
282 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 282 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1670A as it looked roughly 282 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 93Barred spiral3.0 million ly
apartNGC 487Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 1670BLenticular9.2 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular14 million ly
apartNGC 369Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1622Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 487Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 1670BLenticular9.2 million ly
apartIC 1623BIrregular14 million ly
apartNGC 369Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1622Spiral22 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).