IC 1878
IC 1878
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
670 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 670 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1878 as it looked roughly 670 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 1135Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1940Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1879Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1929Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 1948Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 1987 NED02Elliptical74 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1940Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1879Spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1929Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 1948Barred spiral74 million ly
apartIC 1987 NED02Elliptical74 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).