IC 1261 NED01
IC 1261 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
655 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
160k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 655 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1261 NED01 as it looked roughly 655 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 1261 NED02Elliptical3.2 million ly
apartNGC 6461Spiral89 million ly
apartNGC 6456Elliptical89 million ly
apartNGC 6303Elliptical94 million ly
apartNGC 6463Elliptical95 million ly
apartNGC 6331Elliptical120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6461Spiral89 million ly
apartNGC 6456Elliptical89 million ly
apartNGC 6303Elliptical94 million ly
apartNGC 6463Elliptical95 million ly
apartNGC 6331Elliptical120 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).