IC 1866
IC 1866
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1866 as it looked roughly 420 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 1150Lenticular6.3 million ly
apartNGC 1157Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 1151Elliptical7.5 million ly
apartIC 270Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 272Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1092Elliptical22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1157Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 1151Elliptical7.5 million ly
apartIC 270Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 272Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 1092Elliptical22 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).