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
apartIC 4480Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical8.5 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4483Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4480Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical8.5 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4483Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral14 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).