IC 4226
IC 4226
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
255 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
36k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 255 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4226 as it looked roughly 255 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 4225Lenticular2.2 million ly
apartNGC 5065Spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5074Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5056Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5000Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5057Lenticular18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5065Spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5074Spiral6.6 million ly
apartNGC 5056Spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5000Barred spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 5057Lenticular18 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).