IC 1041
IC 1041
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
368 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
93k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 368 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1041 as it looked roughly 368 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 1042Lenticular4.1 million ly
apartNGC 5718Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1054Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5674Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5718Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1054Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 1070Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5674Spiral25 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).