IC 1065
IC 1065
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
582 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
149k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 582 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1065 as it looked roughly 582 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 5561Barred spiral65 million ly
apartNGC 5540Elliptical87 million ly
apartNGC 5779Lenticular88 million ly
apartNGC 5969Elliptical93 million ly
apartIC 1027Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 1069Lenticular100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5540Elliptical87 million ly
apartNGC 5779Lenticular88 million ly
apartNGC 5969Elliptical93 million ly
apartIC 1027Elliptical100 million ly
apartIC 1069Lenticular100 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).