IC 192

IC 192

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
182 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 182 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 192 as it looked roughly 182 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 195Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 876Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 882Lenticular13 million ly
apart
IC 1774Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 196Spiral14 million ly
apart
NGC 871Barred spiral14 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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