IC 4076
IC 4076
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
664 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 664 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4076 as it looked roughly 664 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 3626Barred spiral65 million ly
apartIC 3649Barred spiral87 million ly
apartIC 3403Spiral90 million ly
apartIC 3880Barred spiral98 million ly
apartIC 3882Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 3434Barred spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3649Barred spiral87 million ly
apartIC 3403Spiral90 million ly
apartIC 3880Barred spiral98 million ly
apartIC 3882Barred spiral100 million ly
apartIC 3434Barred spiral100 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).