IC 2015
IC 2015
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
748 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 748 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2015 as it looked roughly 748 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 1948Barred spiral150 million ly
apartNGC 1759Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 1961Spiral180 million ly
apartNGC 1316ABarred spiral190 million ly
apartIC 1964Barred spiral190 million ly
apartIC 1940Spiral190 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1759Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 1961Spiral180 million ly
apartNGC 1316ABarred spiral190 million ly
apartIC 1964Barred spiral190 million ly
apartIC 1940Spiral190 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).