IC 4509
IC 4509
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
134 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
32k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 134 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4509 as it looked roughly 134 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 5656Spiral17 million ly
apartNGC 5529Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5544Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 5704Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5545Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5596Lenticular23 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5529Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5544Lenticular21 million ly
apartNGC 5704Spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5545Barred spiral22 million ly
apartNGC 5596Lenticular23 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).