IC 4433

IC 4433

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sbc
748 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
16.3
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 748 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4433 as it looked roughly 748 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 4419Spiral9.2 million ly
apart
IC 4434Elliptical9.4 million ly
apart
IC 4417Elliptical14 million ly
apart
IC 4438Barred spiral15 million ly
apart
IC 4440Lenticular17 million ly
apart
IC 4428Spiral17 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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