IC 1074

IC 1074

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
361 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 361 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1074 as it looked roughly 361 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 5818Lenticular13 million ly
apart
NGC 5720Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4528Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
NGC 5835Spiral24 million ly
apart
NGC 5767Spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 1033Elliptical31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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