IC 4560
IC 4560
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
910 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
161k ly
across
16.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 910 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4560 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
NGC 5896Spiral75 million ly
apartIC 4539Spiral140 million ly
apartNGC 5753Spiral170 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical180 million ly
apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical190 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical260 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4539Spiral140 million ly
apartNGC 5753Spiral170 million ly
apartIC 4548Elliptical180 million ly
apartNGC 5805 NED01Elliptical190 million ly
apartIC 1166 NED01Elliptical260 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).