IC 1931

IC 1931

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Galaxy
morphology
434 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 434 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1931 as it looked roughly 434 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 332Lenticular7.5 million ly
apart
IC 330Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 322Galaxy16 million ly
apart
IC 1930Elliptical21 million ly
apart
IC 1918Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
IC 1967Barred spiral24 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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