IC 4534
IC 4534
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
227 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
96k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 227 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4534 as it looked roughly 227 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 5857Barred spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 5859Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4517Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1124Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular34 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5859Barred spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4517Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5677Barred spiral30 million ly
apartIC 1124Barred spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 5928Lenticular34 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).