IC 1556
IC 1556
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
321 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 321 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1556 as it looked roughly 321 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
IC 27Galaxy24 million ly
apartIC 5Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 19Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 263Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 107Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 28Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 19Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 263Barred spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 107Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 28Elliptical30 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).