IC 4032
IC 4032
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
315 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 315 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4032 as it looked roughly 315 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
NGC 4895AElliptical3.9 million ly
apartNGC 4841AElliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4881Elliptical4.5 million ly
apartIC 3943Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartNGC 4871Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 4949Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 4841AElliptical4.1 million ly
apartNGC 4881Elliptical4.5 million ly
apartIC 3943Lenticular5.0 million ly
apartNGC 4871Lenticular5.3 million ly
apartNGC 4949Barred spiral5.5 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).