IC 4181
IC 4181
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
928 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
143k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 928 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4181 as it looked roughly 928 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 4185 NED01Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4124Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4183Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4162Barred spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4113Barred spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4124Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4183Elliptical28 million ly
apartIC 4162Barred 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).