IC 4170 NED01
IC 4170 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
866 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
12.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 866 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4170 NED01 as it looked roughly 866 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 4128Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4175Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4137Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4160Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4163Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4148Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4175Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4137Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4160Barred spiral28 million ly
apartIC 4163Barred spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4148Barred spiral29 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).