IC 4096
IC 4096
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
202k ly
across
16.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 4096 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 4099Elliptical780,000 ly
apartIC 3944Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral71 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3944Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral71 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).