IC 1049
IC 1049
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
84k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1049 as it looked roughly 312 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 5881Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5939Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 1129Spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 5255Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1214Lenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 6091Elliptical66 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5939Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 1129Spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 5255Spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1214Lenticular64 million ly
apartNGC 6091Elliptical66 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).