IC 4014
IC 4014
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
1.1 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
123k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.1 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 4014 as it looked roughly 1.1 billion 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 3944Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4096Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4099Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 3848 NED02Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4096Elliptical34 million ly
apartIC 4099Elliptical35 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical43 million ly
apartIC 3848 NED02Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral48 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).