IC 1119 NED01
IC 1119 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
460 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 460 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1119 NED01 as it looked roughly 460 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 1119 NED02Spiral6.4 million ly
apartIC 1080Elliptical62 million ly
apartIC 1136Lenticular63 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular66 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral73 million ly
apartNGC 5814Spiral73 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1080Elliptical62 million ly
apartIC 1136Lenticular63 million ly
apartNGC 5887Lenticular66 million ly
apartNGC 5955Barred spiral73 million ly
apartNGC 5814Spiral73 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).