IC 4161
IC 4161
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
462 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
95k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 462 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4161 as it looked roughly 462 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 4048Barred spiral8.6 million ly
apartIC 4003Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4001Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 3888Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3975Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 4020Spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4003Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 4001Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 3888Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 3975Lenticular24 million ly
apartIC 4020Spiral25 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).