IC 2004
IC 2004
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
47 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
12k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 47 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2004 as it looked roughly 47 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 1493Barred spiral3.5 million ly
apartNGC 1556Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 1433Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartIC 1954Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartIC 1914Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1527Elliptical4.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1556Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartNGC 1433Barred spiral3.9 million ly
apartIC 1954Barred spiral4.4 million ly
apartIC 1914Spiral4.5 million ly
apartNGC 1527Elliptical4.6 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).