IC 1267
IC 1267
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
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
apartIC 1252Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4669Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6454Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6464Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1252Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 4669Barred spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6454Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6464Barred spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6418Barred spiral33 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).