IC 1337
IC 1337
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
429 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 429 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1337 as it looked roughly 429 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 1341Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 1358Galaxy22 million ly
apartIC 1349Lenticular30 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy31 million ly
apartIC 1347Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1348Galaxy32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1358Galaxy22 million ly
apartIC 1349Lenticular30 million ly
apartIC 1351Galaxy31 million ly
apartIC 1347Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 1348Galaxy32 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).