IC 1854
IC 1854
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
432 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 432 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1854 as it looked roughly 432 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 248Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 1054Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 279Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1857Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 235Galaxy38 million ly
apartNGC 1030Spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1054Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 279Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 1857Spiral37 million ly
apartIC 235Galaxy38 million ly
apartNGC 1030Spiral38 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).