IC 4207
IC 4207
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
980 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
16.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 980 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4207 as it looked roughly 980 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 4151 NED02Spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4061 NED01Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 4037Barred spiral72 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical74 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4151 NED01Barred spiral46 million ly
apartIC 4061 NED01Elliptical47 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical65 million ly
apartIC 4037Barred spiral72 million ly
apartIC 3911 NED01Elliptical74 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).