IC 4039
IC 4039
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
45k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4039 as it looked roughly 312 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 3918Spiral6.2 million ly
apartIC 3847Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3736Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4149Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3784Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4685Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3847Spiral10 million ly
apartIC 3736Spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4149Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 3784Barred spiral21 million ly
apartNGC 4685Elliptical21 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).