IC 4041

IC 4041

IC 4041 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices about 330 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 59,000 ly, about 59% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 7,024 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
330 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
7,024 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 330 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4041 as it looked roughly 330 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 3959Elliptical3.5 million ly
apart
IC 4030Lenticular3.9 million ly
apart
NGC 4874Elliptical4.0 million ly
apart
NGC 4872Elliptical4.6 million ly
apart
NGC 4848Spiral4.6 million ly
apart
IC 4045Elliptical5.6 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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