NGC 1011
NGC 1011
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
224 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
44k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 224 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1011 as it looked roughly 224 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 1006Spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 950Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 1045Elliptical9.2 million ly
apartNGC 960Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 929Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 230Lenticular11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 950Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 1045Elliptical9.2 million ly
apartNGC 960Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 929Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 230Lenticular11 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).