IC 514
IC 514
IC 514 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 517 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 86,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 517 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
517 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 517 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 514 as it looked roughly 517 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 516Lenticular7.1 million ly
apartIC 510 NED02Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 2616Lenticular90 million ly
apartIC 498Barred spiral95 million ly
apartIC 515Lenticular98 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 510 NED02Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 517Spiral61 million ly
apartNGC 2616Lenticular90 million ly
apartIC 498Barred spiral95 million ly
apartIC 515Lenticular98 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).