IC 1080
IC 1080
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
468 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
166k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 468 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1080 as it looked roughly 468 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 1119 NED01Galaxy62 million ly
apartIC 1119 NED02Spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 5814Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5680Elliptical87 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular90 million ly
apartIC 1043Spiral90 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1119 NED02Spiral62 million ly
apartNGC 5814Spiral74 million ly
apartNGC 5680Elliptical87 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular90 million ly
apartIC 1043Spiral90 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).