IC 4234
IC 4234
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABa
481 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
109k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 481 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4234 as it looked roughly 481 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 4228Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4307Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 4250Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 4258Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 5251Lenticular41 million ly
apartIC 846Elliptical48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4307Lenticular32 million ly
apartIC 4250Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 4258Elliptical39 million ly
apartNGC 5251Lenticular41 million ly
apartIC 846Elliptical48 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).