IC 4060
IC 4060
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
490 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 490 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4060 as it looked roughly 490 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 4068Elliptical6.2 million ly
apartIC 4064Lenticular9.4 million ly
apartIC 4085Elliptical9.6 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3987Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 3975Lenticular17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4064Lenticular9.4 million ly
apartIC 4085Elliptical9.6 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3987Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 3975Lenticular17 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).