IC 1190
IC 1190
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
500 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
186k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 500 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1190 as it looked roughly 500 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 6039Elliptical5.9 million ly
apartNGC 6055Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 1188ALenticular10 million ly
apartIC 1185Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1186Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1188BSpiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6055Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 1188ALenticular10 million ly
apartIC 1185Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1186Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1188BSpiral14 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).