IC 2025
IC 2025
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
606 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
204k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 606 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2025 as it looked roughly 606 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 1515ABarred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 2033Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 2050Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1957Spiral46 million ly
apartIC 2081Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 2083Lenticular49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 2033Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 2050Barred spiral37 million ly
apartIC 1957Spiral46 million ly
apartIC 2081Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 2083Lenticular49 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).