IC 1790
IC 1790
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
172 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 172 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1790 as it looked roughly 172 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 1791Lenticular2.4 million ly
apartNGC 871Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 195Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 196Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1774Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 876Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 871Barred spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 195Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 196Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1774Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 876Spiral13 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).