IC 4350
IC 4350
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
286 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
157k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 286 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4350 as it looked roughly 286 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 5393Barred spiral19 million ly
apartIC 4374Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 5260Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4320Lenticular35 million ly
apartIC 4298Spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4374Elliptical24 million ly
apartNGC 5260Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 5495Spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4320Lenticular35 million ly
apartIC 4298Spiral37 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).