IC 4425

IC 4425

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · SBb
420 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 420 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4425 as it looked roughly 420 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 4427Spiral2.7 million ly
apart
IC 4423Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apart
IC 1008 NED02Barred spiral10 million ly
apart
IC 1008 NED01Barred spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 4450Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
IC 4462Barred spiral18 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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