IC 1958
IC 1958
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
535 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 535 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1958 as it looked roughly 535 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 1950Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1968Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1991Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1968Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1991Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 1356Barred spiral18 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).