IC 1077
IC 1077
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1077 as it looked roughly 160 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 5791Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5793Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 5810Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5726Elliptical9.9 million ly
apartIC 4501Spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5793Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 5810Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5726Elliptical9.9 million ly
apartIC 4501Spiral12 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).