IC 1277
IC 1277
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
332 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 332 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1277 as it looked roughly 332 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 6575Elliptical8.9 million ly
apartNGC 6518Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6487Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 6446Spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6518Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6640Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 6657Barred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6487Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 6446Spiral41 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).