IC 1258
IC 1258
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
379 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 379 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1258 as it looked roughly 379 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 1259 NED01Elliptical1.6 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical3.0 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6370Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6338Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1260Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6391Elliptical3.0 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6370Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6338Lenticular13 million ly
apartIC 1260Lenticular13 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).