IC 1022
IC 1022
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
80 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
23k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 80 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1022 as it looked roughly 80 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 5638Elliptical2.5 million ly
apartNGC 5636Lenticular2.8 million ly
apartNGC 5690Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5560Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 5569Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 5738Lenticular5.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5636Lenticular2.8 million ly
apartNGC 5690Spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5560Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 5569Spiral4.3 million ly
apartNGC 5738Lenticular5.7 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).