IC 1267

IC 1267

IC 1267 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco about 434 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 170,000 ly, about 1.7 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 9,311 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
434 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
174k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
9,311 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 434 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1267 as it looked roughly 434 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 6382Elliptical30 million ly
apart
IC 1252Spiral31 million ly
apart
IC 4669Barred spiral31 million ly
apart
NGC 6454Elliptical32 million ly
apart
NGC 6464Barred spiral32 million ly
apart
NGC 6418Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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