IC 1166 NED02
IC 1166 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
121k ly
across
17.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 1166 NED02 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 NED01Elliptical10 million ly
apartNGC 6027DSpiral110 million ly
apartIC 4607Elliptical150 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral240 million ly
apartIC 1120Irregular250 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6027DSpiral110 million ly
apartIC 4607Elliptical150 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral240 million ly
apartIC 1120Irregular250 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).