IC 185

IC 185

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
apart
NGC 758Lenticular21 million ly
apart
IC 1781Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 177Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 173Barred spiral47 million ly
apart
IC 145Barred spiral64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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