IC 1155

IC 1155

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
499 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 499 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1155 as it looked roughly 499 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 1163Elliptical6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 6022Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
IC 1167Elliptical11 million ly
apart
IC 1159Lenticular15 million ly
apart
IC 1161Elliptical15 million ly
apart
IC 1168Elliptical16 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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