IC 1141

IC 1141

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
205 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
28k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 205 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1141 as it looked roughly 205 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 1149Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 1137Elliptical15 million ly
apart
NGC 6021Elliptical19 million ly
apart
NGC 5980Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 1133Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 1174Lenticular22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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