IC 1058
IC 1058
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
524 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
227k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 524 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1058 as it looked roughly 524 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 4473 NED02Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1085Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1034Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4473 NED01Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 1085Elliptical31 million ly
apartIC 4463Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1034Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4503Elliptical37 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).