IC 1078
IC 1078
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
400 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 400 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1078 as it looked roughly 400 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 1079Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5736Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 1044Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 5837Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5747 NED01Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5736Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 1044Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 5837Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1040Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5747 NED01Barred spiral29 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).