IC 4345
IC 4345
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
435 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
156k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 435 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4345 as it looked roughly 435 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 4344Spiral1.3 million ly
apartIC 4349Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 4346Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 933Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5008Spiral27 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4349Spiral2.5 million ly
apartIC 4346Lenticular17 million ly
apartIC 933Lenticular23 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical26 million ly
apartNGC 5008Spiral27 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).