IC 1067

IC 1067

IC 1067 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo about 73 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 39,000 ly, about 39% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 1,558 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
73 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
39k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
1,558 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 73 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1067 as it looked roughly 73 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 5774Spiral670,000 ly
apart
IC 1066Spiral940,000 ly
apart
NGC 5740Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apart
IC 1048Barred spiral4.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5725Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5692Barred spiral5.0 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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