IC 4328

IC 4328

IC 4328 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra about 196 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 61,000 ly, about 61% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 4,559 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBab
196 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
61k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
4,559 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 196 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4328 as it looked roughly 196 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 5298Barred spiral7.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5291Elliptical9.1 million ly
apart
NGC 5292Spiral11 million ly
apart
IC 4272Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
IC 4275Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
NGC 5220Spiral15 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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