IC 1191 NED02
IC 1191 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
571 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
17.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 571 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1191 NED02 as it looked roughly 571 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 1193Lenticular8.9 million ly
apartIC 1195Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1195Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 1189Lenticular20 million ly
apartNGC 6056Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED01Spiral28 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).