NGC 1167

NGC 1167

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
231 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
122k ly
across
12.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 231 million ly from home, you are seeing NGC 1167 as it looked roughly 231 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
IC 1874Lenticular5.1 million ly
apart
IC 278Elliptical10 million ly
apart
IC 304Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 1207Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 305Elliptical17 million ly
apart
NGC 1093Spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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