IC 1760
IC 1760
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
517 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 517 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1760 as it looked roughly 517 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 727Spiral59 million ly
apartNGC 878Spiral92 million ly
apartNGC 427Barred spiral94 million ly
apartNGC 892Spiral97 million ly
apartNGC 667Lenticular99 million ly
apartNGC 555Lenticular110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 878Spiral92 million ly
apartNGC 427Barred spiral94 million ly
apartNGC 892Spiral97 million ly
apartNGC 667Lenticular99 million ly
apartNGC 555Lenticular110 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).