IC 4432
IC 4432
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
458 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
113k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 458 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4432 as it looked roughly 458 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 4318Spiral120 million ly
apartNGC 5108Barred spiral120 million ly
apartIC 4276Spiral130 million ly
apartIC 4292Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 4286Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 4260Spiral140 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5108Barred spiral120 million ly
apartIC 4276Spiral130 million ly
apartIC 4292Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 4286Barred spiral130 million ly
apartIC 4260Spiral140 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).