IC 1880
IC 1880
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
477 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
256k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 477 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1880 as it looked roughly 477 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 1206Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 317Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 299Lenticular41 million ly
apartIC 268Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 306Spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 1296Barred spiral50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 317Spiral36 million ly
apartIC 299Lenticular41 million ly
apartIC 268Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 306Spiral49 million ly
apartNGC 1296Barred spiral50 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).