IC 4001
IC 4001
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
470 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 470 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4001 as it looked roughly 470 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
IC 4003Elliptical1.3 million ly
apartIC 4048Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 3916Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3975Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4020Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4161Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4048Barred spiral8.5 million ly
apartIC 3916Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3975Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4020Spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4161Spiral15 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).