IC 4033

IC 4033

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
360 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 360 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4033 as it looked roughly 360 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 4927Elliptical2.1 million ly
apart
IC 4040Spiral3.0 million ly
apart
IC 3955Lenticular3.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4853Elliptical3.8 million ly
apart
IC 4111Lenticular4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4926Elliptical7.2 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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