IC 4204
IC 4204
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
153 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
42k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 153 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4204 as it looked roughly 153 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
NGC 5325Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5380Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5378Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5394Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5395Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5341Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5380Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5378Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 5394Barred spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5395Spiral29 million ly
apartNGC 5341Barred spiral30 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).