IC 1029

IC 1029

IC 1029 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 111 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 90,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 2,403 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABb
111 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
11.3
apparent magnitude
2,403 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 111 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1029 as it looked roughly 111 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 5660Spiral2.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5693Spiral5.0 million ly
apart
NGC 5783Spiral7.6 million ly
apart
NGC 5633Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5602Spiral7.9 million ly
apart
NGC 5707Spiral8.2 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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