IC 919
IC 919
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
491 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 491 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 919 as it looked roughly 491 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 942Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 5540Elliptical58 million ly
apartNGC 4732Elliptical74 million ly
apartNGC 4834Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5009Barred spiral75 million ly
apartNGC 5163Elliptical80 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5540Elliptical58 million ly
apartNGC 4732Elliptical74 million ly
apartNGC 4834Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5009Barred spiral75 million ly
apartNGC 5163Elliptical80 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).