IC 4418
IC 4418
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
513 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
140k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 513 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4418 as it looked roughly 513 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 5594Elliptical11 million ly
apartIC 4405Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4399Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4395Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5508Lenticular33 million ly
apartIC 4384Lenticular39 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4405Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 4399Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4395Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 5508Lenticular33 million ly
apartIC 4384Lenticular39 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).