IC 1158
IC 1158
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
90 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 90 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1158 as it looked roughly 90 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 6010Lenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 6070Spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 6017Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 5913Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5956Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1131Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6070Spiral5.1 million ly
apartNGC 6017Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartNGC 5913Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5956Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 1131Elliptical19 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).