IC 1015 NED01

IC 1015 NED01

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
785 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
135k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 785 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1015 NED01 as it looked roughly 785 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 1015 NED02Spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 4428Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 4415Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 4465Lenticular36 million ly
apart
IC 4419Spiral38 million ly
apart
IC 4433Barred spiral39 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).

← all galaxies