IC 4151 NED01
IC 4151 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
139k ly
across
17.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 4151 NED01 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 4151 NED02Spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED02Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 4207Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4061 NED01Elliptical52 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical96 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED02Elliptical36 million ly
apartIC 4207Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4061 NED01Elliptical52 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical96 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).