IC 182

IC 182

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
219 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 219 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 182 as it looked roughly 219 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 1771Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 1770Lenticular11 million ly
apart
NGC 844Galaxy14 million ly
apart
IC 193Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 706Spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 716Spiral21 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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