IC 4503

IC 4503

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Elliptical
type · E
488 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
170k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 488 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4503 as it looked roughly 488 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 1053Barred spiral9.6 million ly
apart
IC 4473 NED01Barred spiral34 million ly
apart
IC 4473 NED02Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
IC 4463Barred spiral37 million ly
apart
IC 1058Spiral37 million ly
apart
IC 1050Barred spiral42 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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