IC 1551
IC 1551
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
611 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
430k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 611 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1551 as it looked roughly 611 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 190 NED02Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 190 NED01Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 139Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 1549Lenticular51 million ly
apartIC 1568Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical57 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 190 NED01Spiral48 million ly
apartNGC 139Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 1549Lenticular51 million ly
apartIC 1568Lenticular55 million ly
apartIC 1566Elliptical57 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).