IC 1573
IC 1573
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
784 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
294k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 784 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1573 as it looked roughly 784 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 1587Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1576Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral53 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral94 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1576Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1588Lenticular33 million ly
apartNGC 343Spiral53 million ly
apartNGC 377Barred spiral94 million ly
apartNGC 333BLenticular110 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).