IC 1103
IC 1103
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
296k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 1103 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 1101Elliptical260 million ly
apartNGC 6027DSpiral260 million ly
apartNGC 5699Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED02Barred spiral270 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical280 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical280 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6027DSpiral260 million ly
apartNGC 5699Elliptical270 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED02Barred spiral270 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical280 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical280 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).