IC 4423

IC 4423

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
425 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
126k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 425 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4423 as it looked roughly 425 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 4427Spiral7.1 million ly
apart
IC 4425Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apart
IC 4462Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 1008 NED01Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
IC 1008 NED02Barred spiral17 million ly
apart
IC 4450Barred spiral20 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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