IC 185
IC 185
IC 185 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus about 615 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 140,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 615 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
615 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
141k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 615 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 185 as it looked roughly 615 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 186ALenticular17 million ly
apartNGC 758Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1781Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 177Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 173Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 145Barred spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 758Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1781Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 177Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 173Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 145Barred spiral64 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).