IC 1221
IC 1221
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
2.7 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
779k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 2.7 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 1221 as it looked roughly 2.7 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
NGC 5609Elliptical1.6 billion ly
apartIC 1229Barred spiral1.8 billion ly
apartIC 1166 NED02Barred spiral1.8 billion ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical1.8 billion ly
apartIC 4560Lenticular1.8 billion ly
apartNGC 5896Spiral1.8 billion ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1229Barred spiral1.8 billion ly
apartIC 1166 NED02Barred spiral1.8 billion ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical1.8 billion ly
apartIC 4560Lenticular1.8 billion ly
apartNGC 5896Spiral1.8 billion 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).