IC 1970
IC 1970
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
58 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
51k ly
across
12.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 58 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1970 as it looked roughly 58 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
NGC 1495Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 1448Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 1483Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 1494Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 1387Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 1433Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1448Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 1483Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 1494Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 1387Elliptical8.7 million ly
apartNGC 1433Barred spiral8.8 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).