IC 1039
IC 1039
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
343 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
68k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 343 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1039 as it looked roughly 343 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
NGC 5679ASpiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5674Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5650Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1041Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1011Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1010Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5674Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5650Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1041Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1011Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1010Barred spiral29 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).