IC 1912
IC 1912
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
436 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 436 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1912 as it looked roughly 436 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 1938Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2021Barred spiral53 million ly
apartIC 1908Barred spiral57 million ly
apartIC 1978Spiral61 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral61 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral61 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2021Barred spiral53 million ly
apartIC 1908Barred spiral57 million ly
apartIC 1978Spiral61 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral61 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral61 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).