IC 4248
IC 4248
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
192 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
58k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 192 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4248 as it looked roughly 192 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 5135Spiral870,000 ly
apartNGC 5124Elliptical2.0 million ly
apartIC 4272Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 5150Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical8.4 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5124Elliptical2.0 million ly
apartIC 4272Barred spiral3.8 million ly
apartNGC 5150Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5153Elliptical8.4 million ly
apartIC 4275Barred spiral12 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).