IC 4524
IC 4524
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
458 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
85k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 458 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4524 as it looked roughly 458 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 4525Barred spiral840,000 ly
apartIC 4521Spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4530Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4498Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4514Spiral43 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4521Spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 4533Spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4530Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 4498Elliptical39 million ly
apartIC 4514Spiral43 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).