IC 1101
IC 1101
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
379k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 1101 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 1103Elliptical260 million ly
apartIC 1120Irregular330 million ly
apartIC 4537Lenticular340 million ly
apartNGC 5778Elliptical340 million ly
apartNGC 5539Lenticular350 million ly
apartNGC 6027DSpiral360 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1120Irregular330 million ly
apartIC 4537Lenticular340 million ly
apartNGC 5778Elliptical340 million ly
apartNGC 5539Lenticular350 million ly
apartNGC 6027DSpiral360 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).