IC 1586
IC 1586
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
271 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
22k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 271 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1586 as it looked roughly 271 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 1552Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 109Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1548Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 94Galaxy29 million ly
apartNGC 85BBarred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1544Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 109Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1548Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 94Galaxy29 million ly
apartNGC 85BBarred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1544Spiral29 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).