IC 1136
IC 1136
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
417 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
91k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 417 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1136 as it looked roughly 417 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 6033Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1119 NED02Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1119 NED01Galaxy63 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular63 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral71 million ly
apartNGC 6080 NED02Lenticular81 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1119 NED02Spiral58 million ly
apartIC 1119 NED01Galaxy63 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular63 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral71 million ly
apartNGC 6080 NED02Lenticular81 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).