IC 4318
IC 4318
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
414 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
130k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 414 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4318 as it looked roughly 414 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 4292Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4276Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5108Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4232Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4270Barred spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4286Barred spiral60 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4276Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 5108Barred spiral41 million ly
apartIC 4232Barred spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4270Barred spiral50 million ly
apartIC 4286Barred spiral60 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).