IC 4441
IC 4441
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
92 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
52k ly
across
11.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 92 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4441 as it looked roughly 92 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 4390Spiral8.2 million ly
apartIC 4362Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5483Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4402Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5365Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5365BSpiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4362Barred spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5483Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4402Barred spiral15 million ly
apartNGC 5365Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 5365BSpiral26 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).