IC 1876

IC 1876

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
302 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 302 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1876 as it looked roughly 302 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 1899Lenticular18 million ly
apart
NGC 1124Lenticular19 million ly
apart
IC 1860Elliptical32 million ly
apart
IC 1858Lenticular33 million ly
apart
IC 1862Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 1859Barred spiral36 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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