IC 1892
IC 1892
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBd
135 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
13.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 135 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1892 as it looked roughly 135 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 276Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 1188Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 1199Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 1190Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 1209Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 1189Spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1188Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 1199Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 1190Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 1209Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 1189Spiral23 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).