IC 4354
IC 4354
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
550 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
217k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 550 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4354 as it looked roughly 550 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 4360Barred spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 5309Galaxy35 million ly
apartIC 4368Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 4372Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 5555Barred spiral83 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral95 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5309Galaxy35 million ly
apartIC 4368Lenticular40 million ly
apartIC 4372Lenticular43 million ly
apartNGC 5555Barred spiral83 million ly
apartIC 4364Barred spiral95 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).