IC 4061 NED01
IC 4061 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
114k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 4061 NED01 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 4207Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED02Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical55 million ly
apartIC 3842Elliptical56 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical75 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4151 NED02Spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral52 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical55 million ly
apartIC 3842Elliptical56 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical75 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).