IC 2028
IC 2028
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
460 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
115k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 460 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2028 as it looked roughly 460 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 2023Spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 2029Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartIC 2018Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1500Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2021Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2046Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2029Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartIC 2018Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 1500Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 2021Barred spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2046Barred spiral36 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).