IC 1281 NED02
IC 1281 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
633 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
105k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 633 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1281 NED02 as it looked roughly 633 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 6349Lenticular140 million ly
apartIC 1249Barred spiral160 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED02Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 1245Lenticular160 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED01Elliptical170 million ly
apartNGC 6274 NED01Barred spiral180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1249Barred spiral160 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED02Elliptical160 million ly
apartIC 1245Lenticular160 million ly
apartNGC 6582 NED01Elliptical170 million ly
apartNGC 6274 NED01Barred spiral180 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).