IC 4058
IC 4058
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
916 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
165k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 916 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4058 as it looked roughly 916 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 3950Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4141Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4095Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3951Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 3931Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4141Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4095Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3951Elliptical23 million ly
apartIC 3931Barred spiral23 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).