IC 1796
IC 1796
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
237 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 237 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1796 as it looked roughly 237 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
NGC 893Spiral2.9 million ly
apartNGC 889Elliptical8.5 million ly
apartIC 1812Elliptical8.8 million ly
apartNGC 862Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 954Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 939Elliptical13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 889Elliptical8.5 million ly
apartIC 1812Elliptical8.8 million ly
apartNGC 862Elliptical13 million ly
apartNGC 954Barred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 939Elliptical13 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).