IC 4536
IC 4536
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBcd
107 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
41k ly
across
13.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 107 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4536 as it looked roughly 107 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 5892Spiral5.0 million ly
apartNGC 5916ABarred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5916Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5915Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5898Elliptical12 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5916ABarred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5916Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5915Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 5890Lenticular11 million ly
apartNGC 5898Elliptical12 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).