IC 4185 NED01
IC 4185 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
937 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
150k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 937 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4185 NED01 as it looked roughly 937 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 4181Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4183Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4124Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4162Barred spiral40 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4183Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4124Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4113Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4164Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4162Barred spiral40 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).