IC 4286
IC 4286
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
471 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
56k ly
across
16.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 471 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4286 as it looked roughly 471 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 4261Lenticular7.6 million ly
apartIC 4260Spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 4255Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4253Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4289Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4288Barred spiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4260Spiral9.5 million ly
apartIC 4255Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4253Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4289Elliptical16 million ly
apartIC 4288Barred spiral18 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).