IC 1094 NED03
IC 1094 NED03
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
632 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
17.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 632 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1094 NED03 as it looked roughly 632 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 1093Spiral9.1 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED02Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED01Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4516Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 5763Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 1061Elliptical65 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1094 NED02Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 1094 NED01Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4516Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 5763Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 1061Elliptical65 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).