IC 2014
IC 2014
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBc
339 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
62k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 339 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2014 as it looked roughly 339 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 2070Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2022Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2060Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 1960Spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 1463Spiral47 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2022Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 2060Elliptical33 million ly
apartIC 2020Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 1960Spiral47 million ly
apartNGC 1463Spiral47 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).