IC 1757
IC 1757
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 1757 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 88Barred spiral280 million ly
apartIC 70Lenticular340 million ly
apartIC 236Lenticular390 million ly
apartIC 30Lenticular400 million ly
apartIC 158Galaxy410 million ly
apartNGC 870Galaxy420 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 70Lenticular340 million ly
apartIC 236Lenticular390 million ly
apartIC 30Lenticular400 million ly
apartIC 158Galaxy410 million ly
apartNGC 870Galaxy420 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).