IC 1065

IC 1065

IC 1065 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Draco about 582 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 150,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 12,423 km/s.

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
12,423 km/s
receding (RC3)

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
apart
NGC 5540Elliptical87 million ly
apart
NGC 5779Lenticular88 million ly
apart
NGC 5969Elliptical93 million ly
apart
IC 1027Elliptical100 million ly
apart
IC 1069Lenticular100 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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