IC 1036

IC 1036

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
424 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 424 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1036 as it looked roughly 424 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 1037Elliptical3.7 million ly
apart
IC 4480Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apart
IC 4486Elliptical8.5 million ly
apart
IC 1047Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 4483Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
NGC 5711Barred spiral14 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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