IC 1156
IC 1156
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
436 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 436 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1156 as it looked roughly 436 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 6047Elliptical17 million ly
apartNGC 6050Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1170Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6098Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6099Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 6084Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6050Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1170Elliptical21 million ly
apartNGC 6098Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6099Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 6084Spiral31 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).