IC 4127
IC 4127
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
510 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
86k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 510 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4127 as it looked roughly 510 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 4103Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartIC 4108Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartIC 4118Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4893Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 4004Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 4115Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4108Elliptical9.7 million ly
apartIC 4118Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 4893Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 4004Elliptical12 million ly
apartIC 4115Barred spiral14 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).