IC 2010
IC 2010
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
247 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 247 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2010 as it looked roughly 247 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 1997Spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 2017Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1534Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 1529Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 1526Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 1490Elliptical27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2017Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 1534Lenticular15 million ly
apartNGC 1529Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 1526Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 1490Elliptical27 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).