IC 4337
IC 4337
IC 4337 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Boötes about 338 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 76,000 ly, about 76% of our Milky Way's width. The light reaching us tonight left it about 338 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
338 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 338 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4337 as it looked roughly 338 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 944Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 948Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 946Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 959Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5456Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 5454Lenticular25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 948Elliptical17 million ly
apartIC 946Spiral19 million ly
apartIC 959Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5456Lenticular23 million ly
apartNGC 5454Lenticular25 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).