IC 2021
IC 2021
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
429 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
81k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 429 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2021 as it looked roughly 429 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 2028Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 2023Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1938Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 2029Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2018Spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 1500Elliptical50 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2023Spiral35 million ly
apartIC 1938Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 2029Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 2018Spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 1500Elliptical50 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).