IC 4341
IC 4341
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
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
apartNGC 5354Lenticular5.5 million ly
apartNGC 5358Lenticular6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5353Lenticular6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5350Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5347Spiral7.8 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5354Lenticular5.5 million ly
apartNGC 5358Lenticular6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5353Lenticular6.2 million ly
apartNGC 5350Barred spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5347Spiral7.8 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).