IC 4164

IC 4164

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
908 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
119k ly
across
16.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 908 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4164 as it looked roughly 908 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 4162Barred spiral5.2 million ly
apart
IC 4113Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
IC 4163Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4122Lenticular19 million ly
apart
IC 4175Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 4058Barred spiral24 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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