IC 1950
IC 1950
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
532 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
241k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 532 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1950 as it looked roughly 532 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 1947Spiral5.9 million ly
apartIC 1968Spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1989Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1968Spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1989Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular23 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).