IC 4145
IC 4145
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
700 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
145k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 700 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4145 as it looked roughly 700 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 4184Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 3922Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3893Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4152Elliptical41 million ly
apartIC 3751Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 3890Spiral56 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3922Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 3893Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4152Elliptical41 million ly
apartIC 3751Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 3890Spiral56 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).