page_title: IC 1101
hierarchical_section_title: IC 1101
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of the giant galaxy IC 1101, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 at 702 nm.
context_page_description: IC 1101 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster and is one of the largest known galaxies. Its halo extends about 600 kiloparsecs from its core, and it has a mass of about 100 trillion stars. The galaxy is located 320 megaparsecs from Earth.
context_section_description: IC 1101 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster and is one of the largest known galaxies. Its halo extends about 600 kiloparsecs (2 million light-years) from its core, and it has a mass of about 100 trillion stars. The galaxy is located 320 megaparsecs (1.04 billion light-years) from Earth.
caption: June 1995 image of IC 1101 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
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