IC 1011 explained

IC 1011
Constellation Name:Virgo[1]
Epoch:J2000[2]
Size V:0.741′ × 0.427
Type:Sb d
Names:PGC 51662, MCG +00-37-008, 2MASX J14280456+0100228, IRAS 14255+0113

IC 1011 is a barred spiral galaxy[2] with apparent magnitude of 14.7, and with a redshift of z=0.02564 (SIMBAD)[2] or 0.025703 (NASA),[3] yielding a distance of 100 to 120 megaparsecs.[3] Its light has taken 349.5 million years to travel to Earth. IC 1011's calculated age is approximately 12.95 billion years.[3] The IC designation comes from the Index Catalogue.

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  1. WikiSky, "IC 1011" (accessed 2011-05-09)
  2. SIMBAD, "IC 1011" (accessed 2011-05-09)
  3. http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=IC+1011 NED results for object IC 1011