IC 4346
IC 4346
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
418 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
89k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 418 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4346 as it looked roughly 418 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 4343Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 4342Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4332Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4349Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4344Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4342Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4332Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4349Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 4344Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4373Elliptical17 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).