IC 4188
IC 4188
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
525 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
70k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 525 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4188 as it looked roughly 525 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 4187Elliptical6.0 million ly
apartIC 4201Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3940Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4103Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4118Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4108Elliptical21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4201Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 3940Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4103Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4118Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4108Elliptical21 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).