IC 1025
IC 1025
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
374 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 374 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 1025 as it looked roughly 374 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 5681Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1002Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1001Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5619BBarred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 1002Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1003Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 1001Barred spiral22 million ly
apartIC 1007Spiral22 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).