IC 1066
IC 1066
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
74 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
26k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 74 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1066 as it looked roughly 74 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 1067Barred spiral940,000 ly
apartNGC 5774Spiral1.6 million ly
apartNGC 5740Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 1048Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 5725Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 5692Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5774Spiral1.6 million ly
apartNGC 5740Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 1048Barred spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 5725Barred spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 5692Barred spiral4.8 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).