IC 4480
IC 4480
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
431 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
80k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 431 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4480 as it looked roughly 431 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 4486Elliptical4.0 million ly
apartIC 1037Elliptical4.9 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5737Barred spiral14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1037Elliptical4.9 million ly
apartIC 1047Barred spiral7.3 million ly
apartIC 1036Barred spiral8.2 million ly
apartNGC 5711Barred spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 5737Barred spiral14 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).