IC 1067
IC 1067
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1067 as it looked roughly 73 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 5774Spiral670,000 ly
apartIC 1066Spiral940,000 ly
apartNGC 5740Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 1048Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 5725Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 5692Barred spiral5.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1066Spiral940,000 ly
apartNGC 5740Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartIC 1048Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apartNGC 5725Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartNGC 5692Barred spiral5.0 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).