IC 4341

IC 4341

IC 4341 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici about 110 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 29,000 ly, about 29% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 2,341 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sc
110 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
2,341 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 110 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4341 as it looked roughly 110 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 5355Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5354Lenticular5.5 million ly
apart
NGC 5358Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5353Lenticular6.2 million ly
apart
NGC 5350Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apart
NGC 5347Spiral7.8 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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