IC 1482

IC 1482

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
414 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 414 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1482 as it looked roughly 414 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 7642Spiral5.1 million ly
apart
NGC 7629Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 7589Spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 7603Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
NGC 7546Spiral42 million ly
apart
IC 5287Barred spiral45 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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