IC 1125
IC 1125
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Scd
131 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 131 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1125 as it looked roughly 131 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 5937Spiral3.0 million ly
apartNGC 5850Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6014Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 6063Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5891Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1084Elliptical33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5850Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 6014Lenticular27 million ly
apartNGC 6063Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5891Barred spiral31 million ly
apartIC 1084Elliptical33 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).