IC 1977
IC 1977
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
464 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 464 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1977 as it looked roughly 464 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 1384Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 355Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 1890Lenticular65 million ly
apartIC 1894Lenticular70 million ly
apartIC 279Barred spiral79 million ly
apartNGC 1462Spiral89 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 355Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 1890Lenticular65 million ly
apartIC 1894Lenticular70 million ly
apartIC 279Barred spiral79 million ly
apartNGC 1462Spiral89 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).