IC 1063
IC 1063
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
648 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 648 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1063 as it looked roughly 648 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 1102Spiral79 million ly
apartIC 1106Barred spiral88 million ly
apartNGC 5919Elliptical89 million ly
apartNGC 5763Elliptical91 million ly
apartNGC 5920Lenticular93 million ly
apartIC 1109Elliptical98 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1106Barred spiral88 million ly
apartNGC 5919Elliptical89 million ly
apartNGC 5763Elliptical91 million ly
apartNGC 5920Lenticular93 million ly
apartIC 1109Elliptical98 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).