IC 1001
IC 1001
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
382 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 382 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1001 as it looked roughly 382 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 1002Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 988Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1003Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 988Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral21 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).