IC 4285
IC 4285
IC 4285 is a galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 1.0 billion ly from Earth. It spans roughly 96,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 1.0 billion years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
1.0 billion ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
17.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 1.0 billion ly from home, you are seeing IC 4285 as it looked roughly 1.0 billion 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 4061 NED01Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 936Barred spiral170 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical170 million ly
apartNGC 5391Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 929Elliptical180 million ly
apartIC 923Elliptical180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 936Barred spiral170 million ly
apartIC 3993Elliptical170 million ly
apartNGC 5391Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 929Elliptical180 million ly
apartIC 923Elliptical180 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).