IC 4125
IC 4125
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
942 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
277k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 942 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4125 as it looked roughly 942 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 4141Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 3951Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 3950Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4058Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 4095Barred spiral41 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3951Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 3950Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4058Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral39 million ly
apartIC 4095Barred spiral41 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).