IC 1259 NED01
IC 1259 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
377 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 377 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1259 NED01 as it looked roughly 377 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 1258Spiral1.6 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical2.5 million ly
apartIC 1260Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6370Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6338Lenticular13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6391Elliptical2.5 million ly
apartIC 1260Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED02Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6370Elliptical12 million ly
apartNGC 6338Lenticular13 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).