IC 1936
IC 1936
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
556 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
103k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 556 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1936 as it looked roughly 556 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 1932Lenticular7.3 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1916Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1356Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1916Barred spiral25 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).