IC 1571
IC 1571
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
272 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 272 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1571 as it looked roughly 272 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 25Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 236Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 219Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1575Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1557Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 161Lenticular20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 236Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 219Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 1575Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1557Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 161Lenticular20 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).