IC 4081
IC 4081
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
470 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
57k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 470 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4081 as it looked roughly 470 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 846Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 4172Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3776Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4154Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4228Barred spiral43 million ly
apartIC 3659Barred spiral49 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4172Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 3776Spiral32 million ly
apartIC 4154Barred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 4228Barred spiral43 million ly
apartIC 3659Barred spiral49 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).