IC 1052
IC 1052
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
426 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 426 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1052 as it looked roughly 426 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 5711Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5710Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5710Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4486Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4480Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical21 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).