Cosmic Exploration · galaxy
IC 1613
Dwarf irregular · 2.38 million ly
- Morphology
- Dwarf irregular
- Type
- Galaxy
- Dec (deg)
- 2.1195
- Distance from Earth
- 2380000
- Diameter (ly)
- 10000
- RA (deg)
- 16.2017
- Subgroup
- Independent
- Coordinates
- 01h 04m 48.4s +02° 07′ 10.2″ · IC 1613 via Sc
Notes
Unusually free of dust, which makes its stars easy to measure individually; it is one of the standard laboratories for calibrating the distance ladder.
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