IC 4549
IC 4549
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
432 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
88k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 432 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4549 as it looked roughly 432 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 4542Lenticular16 million ly
apartNGC 5924Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4568Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4580Lenticular44 million ly
apartIC 4570Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 4574Barred spiral48 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5924Barred spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4568Barred spiral40 million ly
apartIC 4580Lenticular44 million ly
apartIC 4570Spiral44 million ly
apartIC 4574Barred spiral48 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).