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.

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apart
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apart
IC 3880Barred spiral98 million ly
apart
IC 3882Barred spiral100 million ly
apart
IC 3434Barred spiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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