IC 4413
IC 4413
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
450 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 450 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4413 as it looked roughly 450 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 4435Elliptical7.3 million ly
apartIC 4446Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4502Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5755Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4515Spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 5654Lenticular46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4446Spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4502Barred spiral35 million ly
apartNGC 5755Barred spiral36 million ly
apartIC 4515Spiral44 million ly
apartNGC 5654Lenticular46 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).