IC 1015 NED02
IC 1015 NED02
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
770 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
161k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 770 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1015 NED02 as it looked roughly 770 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 4428Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 1015 NED01Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4433Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4419Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4465Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 4415Spiral32 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1015 NED01Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4433Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4419Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4465Lenticular27 million ly
apartIC 4415Spiral32 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).