IC 1755
IC 1755
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
369 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
157k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 369 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1755 as it looked roughly 369 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 1775Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 810 NED01Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 810 NED02Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 794Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 213Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 791Elliptical40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 810 NED01Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 810 NED02Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 794Elliptical30 million ly
apartIC 213Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 791Elliptical40 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).