IC 1110

IC 1110

IC 1110 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Minor about 160 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 3,489 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
160 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
3,489 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 160 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1110 as it looked roughly 160 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 6135Galaxy22 million ly
apart
NGC 5965Spiral30 million ly
apart
NGC 5144 NED02Spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 5971Spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 5987Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
IC 1210Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

← all galaxies