IC 4408
IC 4408
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
422 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
102k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 422 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4408 as it looked roughly 422 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 4422Elliptical9.2 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED02Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED01Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4460Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4425Barred spiral23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1008 NED02Barred spiral13 million ly
apartIC 1008 NED01Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4450Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4460Spiral22 million ly
apartIC 4425Barred spiral23 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).