IC 2032
IC 2032
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · IAB
50 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
16k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 50 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 2032 as it looked roughly 50 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 1617Barred spiral3.1 million ly
apartNGC 1515Spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 1543Lenticular5.4 million ly
apartIC 1954Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartIC 2056Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartIC 1933Spiral5.7 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 1515Spiral5.2 million ly
apartNGC 1543Lenticular5.4 million ly
apartIC 1954Barred spiral5.4 million ly
apartIC 2056Barred spiral5.6 million ly
apartIC 1933Spiral5.7 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).