IC 4064

IC 4064

IC 4064 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 497 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 200,000 ly, about 2.0 times the width of our Milky Way. It is receding from us at about 10,680 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0
497 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
202k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
10,680 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 497 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4064 as it looked roughly 497 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 4085Elliptical1.9 million ly
apart
IC 3945Spiral8.1 million ly
apart
IC 4068Elliptical8.8 million ly
apart
IC 4062Spiral8.9 million ly
apart
IC 4060Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apart
IC 4004Elliptical11 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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