IC 4287 NED01
IC 4287 NED01
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
350 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
98k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 350 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4287 NED01 as it looked roughly 350 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 4297Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartIC 4244Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4230Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4241Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 909Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 910Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4244Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4230Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4241Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 909Spiral31 million ly
apartIC 910Spiral33 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).