IC 4476
IC 4476
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
130 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
29k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 130 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4476 as it looked roughly 130 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 5728Spiral3.7 million ly
apartNGC 5757Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5744Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 5597Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5595Spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 1055Barred spiral9.9 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5757Barred spiral7.8 million ly
apartNGC 5744Spiral8.3 million ly
apartNGC 5597Spiral9.2 million ly
apartNGC 5595Spiral9.3 million ly
apartIC 1055Barred spiral9.9 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).