IC 1955
IC 1955
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
582 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 582 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1955 as it looked roughly 582 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 1957Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1946Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1932Lenticular62 million ly
apartIC 2033Spiral63 million ly
apartIC 1936Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2025Barred spiral65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1946Lenticular61 million ly
apartIC 1932Lenticular62 million ly
apartIC 2033Spiral63 million ly
apartIC 1936Spiral65 million ly
apartIC 2025Barred spiral65 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).