IC 4137
IC 4137
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
854 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
97k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 854 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4137 as it looked roughly 854 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 4160Barred spiral5.7 million ly
apartIC 4170 NED01Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4128Barred spiral43 million ly
apartIC 4175Barred spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4163Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 4122Lenticular54 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4170 NED01Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4128Barred spiral43 million ly
apartIC 4175Barred spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4163Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 4122Lenticular54 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).