IC 1157
IC 1157
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
538 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 538 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1157 as it looked roughly 538 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 1160Lenticular18 million ly
apartNGC 6023Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1161Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1192Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 1195Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6023Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1161Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 1192Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 1194Lenticular26 million ly
apartIC 1195Barred spiral27 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).