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.

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IC 4181Barred spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 4183Elliptical19 million ly
apart
IC 4124Elliptical21 million ly
apart
IC 4113Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 4164Barred spiral36 million ly
apart
IC 4162Barred spiral40 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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