IC 1896
IC 1896
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
51 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
12k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 51 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1896 as it looked roughly 51 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 1249Barred spiral1.4 million ly
apartIC 1933Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 1954Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 1914Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 2032Irregular7.8 million ly
apartNGC 1433Barred spiral7.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1933Spiral3.4 million ly
apartIC 1954Barred spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 1914Spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 2032Irregular7.8 million ly
apartNGC 1433Barred spiral7.9 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).