IC 2018
IC 2018
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
473 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 473 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2018 as it looked roughly 473 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 2029Barred spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 1500Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral9.6 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2046Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1973Galaxy37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1500Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral9.6 million ly
apartIC 2028Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 2046Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 1973Galaxy37 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).