IC 1053
IC 1053
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
481 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 481 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1053 as it looked roughly 481 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 4503Elliptical9.6 million ly
apartIC 1050Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED02Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5737Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral42 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1050Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED02Barred spiral41 million ly
apartNGC 5737Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral42 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).