IC 19

IC 19

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
300 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 300 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 19 as it looked roughly 300 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 28Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 18Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 155Lenticular14 million ly
apart
IC 23Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 107Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
NGC 62Barred spiral18 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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