IC 4099
IC 4099
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
196k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 4099 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 4096Elliptical780,000 ly
apartIC 3944Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 3994Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 3817Barred spiral71 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3944Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3958Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4014Barred spiral35 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).