IC 4004
IC 4004
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
503 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 503 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4004 as it looked roughly 503 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 4062Spiral9.9 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4085Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4064Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4127Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4893Elliptical14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3945Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4085Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4064Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4127Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 4893Elliptical14 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).