IC 1002
IC 1002
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
380 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
65k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 380 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1002 as it looked roughly 380 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 1001Barred spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 988Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1003Spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5619Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 988Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral19 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).