IC 1989
IC 1989
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
520 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
207k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 520 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1989 as it looked roughly 520 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 1968Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 1991Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1950Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1973Galaxy26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1991Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 1950Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1958Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1947Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1973Galaxy26 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).