IC 1225
IC 1225
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
411 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
164k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 411 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1225 as it looked roughly 411 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 6024Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 6319Elliptical49 million ly
apartNGC 6420Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 6317Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1212Elliptical52 million ly
apartNGC 6470Barred spiral53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6319Elliptical49 million ly
apartNGC 6420Elliptical50 million ly
apartNGC 6317Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 1212Elliptical52 million ly
apartNGC 6470Barred spiral53 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).