IC 1055
IC 1055
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
136 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
13.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 136 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1055 as it looked roughly 136 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 5809Lenticular8.8 million ly
apartNGC 5728Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 4476Lenticular9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5796Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5815Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5728Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 4476Lenticular9.9 million ly
apartNGC 5796Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 5815Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral15 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).