IC 1557
IC 1557
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
286 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 286 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1557 as it looked roughly 286 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 161Lenticular900,000 ly
apartNGC 106Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 12Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 25Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1571Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 8Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 106Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 12Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 25Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1571Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 8Elliptical21 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).