IC 4003

IC 4003

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
469 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
146k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 469 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4003 as it looked roughly 469 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 4001Elliptical1.3 million ly
apart
IC 4048Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apart
IC 3916Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 3975Lenticular12 million ly
apart
IC 4020Spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 4161Spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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