IC 1107
IC 1107
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
544 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
111k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 544 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1107 as it looked roughly 544 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 5847Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 1105Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 1106Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1116Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 5865Elliptical41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1105Spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5911Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 1106Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 1116Elliptical40 million ly
apartNGC 5865Elliptical41 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).