IC 1153
IC 1153
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
275 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
13.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 275 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1153 as it looked roughly 275 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 1152Elliptical710,000 ly
apartNGC 6154Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4565Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4567Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4564Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4562Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6154Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4565Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4567Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4564Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4562Elliptical30 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).