IC 1938
IC 1938
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
423 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 423 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1938 as it looked roughly 423 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 1912Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 2021Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1908Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 1960Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2021Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1908Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 1960Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral54 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral56 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).