IC 1440
IC 1440
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1440 as it looked roughly 197 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 7246Spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 7230Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7309Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7341Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7349Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 7230Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 7309Spiral26 million ly
apartNGC 7341Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 7251Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 7349Barred spiral33 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).