IC 1020
IC 1020
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
200 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 200 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1020 as it looked roughly 200 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 1017Lenticular4.7 million ly
apartNGC 5635Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 4452Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5659Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5641Spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 4397Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5635Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 4452Spiral5.8 million ly
apartNGC 5659Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5641Spiral9.8 million ly
apartIC 4397Barred spiral10 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).