IC 4300
IC 4300
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
564 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
38k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 564 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4300 as it looked roughly 564 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 5096 NED02Elliptical34 million ly
apartNGC 5096 NED01Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5282Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5277Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 5098 NED01Elliptical51 million ly
apartNGC 5275Lenticular52 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5096 NED01Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 5282Elliptical37 million ly
apartNGC 5277Barred spiral38 million ly
apartNGC 5098 NED01Elliptical51 million ly
apartNGC 5275Lenticular52 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).