IC 4407
IC 4407
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBm
127 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
55k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 127 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4407 as it looked roughly 127 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 5534Spiral6.0 million ly
apartNGC 5604Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5493Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 5476Spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5472Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5427Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5604Spiral6.4 million ly
apartNGC 5493Lenticular7.4 million ly
apartNGC 5476Spiral8.9 million ly
apartNGC 5472Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 5427Spiral11 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).