IC 1259 NED02
IC 1259 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
389 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
14.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 389 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1259 NED02 as it looked roughly 389 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
NGC 6377Spiral9.9 million ly
apartIC 1258Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6394Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1258Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6394Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6376Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical12 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).