IC 4533

IC 4533

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Spiral
type · SABa
468 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
133k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 468 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4533 as it looked roughly 468 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 spiral20 million ly
apart
IC 4524Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
IC 4521Spiral23 million ly
apart
IC 4530Barred spiral35 million ly
apart
IC 4547Elliptical44 million ly
apart
IC 4546Spiral44 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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