IC 4403
IC 4403
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
199 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
71k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 199 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4403 as it looked roughly 199 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 5512Elliptical5.8 million ly
apartIC 4447Lenticular8.7 million ly
apartNGC 5642Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1012Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5433Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4442Barred spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4447Lenticular8.7 million ly
apartNGC 5642Elliptical10 million ly
apartIC 1012Barred spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5433Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4442Barred spiral13 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).