IC 1674
IC 1674
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
331 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 331 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1674 as it looked roughly 331 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 1650Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 328Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1630Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1605Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1625Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 1615Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 328Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1630Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1605Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1625Elliptical29 million ly
apartIC 1615Barred spiral30 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).