IC 1021
IC 1021
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
412 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
74k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 412 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1021 as it looked roughly 412 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
NGC 5710Elliptical20 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1052Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4475Elliptical29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5711Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 1052Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4475Elliptical29 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).