IC 4355

IC 4355

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · Sa
374 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
47k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 374 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4355 as it looked roughly 374 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 4322Elliptical29 million ly
apart
IC 4371Barred spiral33 million ly
apart
NGC 5421 NED02Lenticular36 million ly
apart
NGC 5421 NED01Spiral36 million ly
apart
IC 909Spiral36 million ly
apart
IC 4317Spiral38 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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