IC 4331
IC 4331
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
715 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
131k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 715 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4331 as it looked roughly 715 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 956 NED02Elliptical78 million ly
apartIC 956 NED01Spiral86 million ly
apartIC 4239Lenticular100 million ly
apartNGC 5319Barred spiral110 million ly
apartNGC 5274Elliptical110 million ly
apartIC 4416Elliptical120 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 956 NED01Spiral86 million ly
apartIC 4239Lenticular100 million ly
apartNGC 5319Barred spiral110 million ly
apartNGC 5274Elliptical110 million ly
apartIC 4416Elliptical120 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).