IC 1999
IC 1999
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
800 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
184k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 800 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1999 as it looked roughly 800 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 1965Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 1996Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 1964Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1951Barred spiral91 million ly
apartIC 1920Lenticular91 million ly
apartIC 1945Lenticular92 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1996Spiral38 million ly
apartIC 1964Barred spiral60 million ly
apartIC 1951Barred spiral91 million ly
apartIC 1920Lenticular91 million ly
apartIC 1945Lenticular92 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).