IC 1166 NED01
IC 1166 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
155k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 1166 NED01 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 1166 NED02Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6027DSpiral110 million ly
apartIC 4607Elliptical140 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral240 million ly
apartIC 1120Irregular240 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6027DSpiral110 million ly
apartIC 4607Elliptical140 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral240 million ly
apartIC 1120Irregular240 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).