IC 4537
IC 4537
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0-a
758 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
165k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 758 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4537 as it looked roughly 758 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 1109Elliptical61 million ly
apartNGC 5919Elliptical130 million ly
apartIC 1063Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 1121Elliptical150 million ly
apartNGC 5920Lenticular160 million ly
apartNGC 5931Lenticular170 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5919Elliptical130 million ly
apartIC 1063Barred spiral140 million ly
apartIC 1121Elliptical150 million ly
apartNGC 5920Lenticular160 million ly
apartNGC 5931Lenticular170 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).