IC 1003
IC 1003
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
378 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 378 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1003 as it looked roughly 378 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 1002Spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 1001Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 988Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1001Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 988Lenticular17 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).