IC 4307
IC 4307
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
500 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 500 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4307 as it looked roughly 500 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 5251Lenticular11 million ly
apartIC 4258Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 5280Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4250Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4234Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 5271Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4258Elliptical27 million ly
apartNGC 5280Elliptical27 million ly
apartIC 4250Spiral29 million ly
apartIC 4234Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 5271Barred spiral33 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).