IC 1439
IC 1439
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
450 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
163k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 450 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1439 as it looked roughly 450 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 7310Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 7294Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 7157Spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 7104Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 1393Lenticular67 million ly
apartNGC 7269Barred spiral67 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7294Lenticular49 million ly
apartNGC 7157Spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 7104Elliptical67 million ly
apartIC 1393Lenticular67 million ly
apartNGC 7269Barred spiral67 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).