IC 1035

IC 1035

IC 1035 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 423 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 130,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 423 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
423 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
132k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 423 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1035 as it looked roughly 423 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 5747 NED02Barred spiral24 million ly
apart
IC 1038Elliptical27 million ly
apart
IC 1040Spiral29 million ly
apart
NGC 5747 NED01Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
IC 1044Lenticular31 million ly
apart
NGC 5562Lenticular34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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