IC 2019
IC 2019
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
258 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 258 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2019 as it looked roughly 258 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 1474Spiral28 million ly
apartIC 338Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1541Lenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 1552Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 1633Spiral49 million ly
apartIC 1956Barred spiral51 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 338Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 1541Lenticular35 million ly
apartNGC 1552Lenticular42 million ly
apartNGC 1633Spiral49 million ly
apartIC 1956Barred spiral51 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).