IC 1957
IC 1957
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
597 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
177k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 597 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1957 as it looked roughly 597 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 1929Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1932Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 1940Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1936Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 2025Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 1879Spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1932Lenticular37 million ly
apartIC 1940Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1936Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 2025Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 1879Spiral48 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).