IC 4369

IC 4369

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
921 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
118k ly
across
16.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 921 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4369 as it looked roughly 921 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 5287Elliptical100 million ly
apart
NGC 5259 NED02Elliptical110 million ly
apart
IC 961Barred spiral140 million ly
apart
IC 4461Spiral150 million ly
apart
NGC 5699Elliptical170 million ly
apart
IC 4271 NED01Barred spiral170 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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