IC 1152

IC 1152

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
274 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 274 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1152 as it looked roughly 274 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 1153Lenticular710,000 ly
apart
NGC 6154Spiral25 million ly
apart
IC 4565Spiral28 million ly
apart
IC 4567Spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 4564Spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 4562Elliptical29 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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