IC 4135
IC 4135
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
515 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
100k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 515 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4135 as it looked roughly 515 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 4065Barred spiral6.3 million ly
apartIC 4056Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 4073Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 4062Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4108Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4056Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 4073Spiral9.7 million ly
apartIC 4062Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 3945Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4108Elliptical17 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).