IC 1137
IC 1137
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E?
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1137 as it looked roughly 199 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 1141Spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5936Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1149Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1133Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5980Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1199Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5936Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1149Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 1133Barred spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5980Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1199Barred spiral30 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).