IC 4470
IC 4470
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
320 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 320 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4470 as it looked roughly 320 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
NGC 5712Elliptical3.5 million ly
apartNGC 5295Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 5909Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1139Galaxy26 million ly
apartIC 1143Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 5912Elliptical30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5295Elliptical14 million ly
apartNGC 5909Barred spiral25 million ly
apartIC 1139Galaxy26 million ly
apartIC 1143Elliptical29 million ly
apartNGC 5912Elliptical30 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).