IC 1890
IC 1890
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
485 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
144k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 485 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1890 as it looked roughly 485 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 1894Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 279Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1832Lenticular57 million ly
apartNGC 1054Barred spiral62 million ly
apartIC 1977Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 1854Lenticular66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 279Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 1832Lenticular57 million ly
apartNGC 1054Barred spiral62 million ly
apartIC 1977Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 1854Lenticular66 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).