IC 1951
IC 1951
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
864 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
136k ly
across
17.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 864 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1951 as it looked roughly 864 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 1945Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 1920Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1942 NED02Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1974Spiral63 million ly
apartIC 1961Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 1964Barred spiral70 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1920Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 1942 NED02Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1974Spiral63 million ly
apartIC 1961Spiral64 million ly
apartIC 1964Barred spiral70 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).