IC 1935
IC 1935
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
260 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 260 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1935 as it looked roughly 260 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 1136Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1031Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 1997Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2017Lenticular47 million ly
apartIC 2010Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1031Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 1997Spiral43 million ly
apartIC 2017Lenticular47 million ly
apartIC 2010Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral49 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).