IC 1650

IC 1650

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
343 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 343 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1650 as it looked roughly 343 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 1674Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 1605Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 1615Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 328Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 1633Elliptical27 million ly
apart
NGC 323Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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