IC 4231
IC 4231
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
105 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
63k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 105 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4231 as it looked roughly 105 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 4254Barred spiral3.6 million ly
apartIC 874Lenticular3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5078Spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 4965Spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 4303Spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5085Spiral10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 874Lenticular3.6 million ly
apartNGC 5078Spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 4965Spiral7.5 million ly
apartIC 4303Spiral9.0 million ly
apartNGC 5085Spiral10 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).