IC 1054

IC 1054

IC 1054 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 384 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 384 million years ago.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
384 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 384 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1054 as it looked roughly 384 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 5718Elliptical18 million ly
apart
NGC 5776Elliptical18 million ly
apart
IC 1068Elliptical18 million ly
apart
IC 1070Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 1059Lenticular20 million ly
apart
IC 1042Lenticular21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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