IC 4539
IC 4539
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
856 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
137k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 856 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4539 as it looked roughly 856 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 4548Elliptical82 million ly
apartIC 4560Lenticular140 million ly
apartNGC 5753Spiral140 million ly
apartNGC 5896Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 4461Spiral180 million ly
apartIC 4531Elliptical180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4560Lenticular140 million ly
apartNGC 5753Spiral140 million ly
apartNGC 5896Spiral160 million ly
apartIC 4461Spiral180 million ly
apartIC 4531Elliptical180 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).