IC 4163

IC 4163

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
895 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 895 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4163 as it looked roughly 895 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 4175Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apart
IC 4162Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apart
IC 4122Lenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 4164Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4113Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 4128Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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