IC 1050
IC 1050
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
449 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
108k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 449 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1050 as it looked roughly 449 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 5737Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4480Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral28 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).