IC 4548
IC 4548
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
910 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
127k ly
across
16.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 910 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4548 as it looked roughly 910 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 4539Spiral82 million ly
apartIC 1120Irregular170 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED02Barred spiral170 million ly
apartIC 4560Lenticular180 million ly
apartNGC 6027DSpiral180 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1120Irregular170 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical170 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED02Barred spiral170 million ly
apartIC 4560Lenticular180 million ly
apartNGC 6027DSpiral180 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).