IC 1596
IC 1596
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
125 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 125 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1596 as it looked roughly 125 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 1711Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 514Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 691Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 163Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 473Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 7798Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 514Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 691Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 163Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 473Lenticular29 million ly
apartNGC 7798Barred spiral29 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).