IC 4568

IC 4568

IC 4568 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Corona Borealis about 437 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 69,000 ly, about 69% of our Milky Way's width. It is receding from us at about 9,376 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral
type · Sb
437 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
69k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
9,376 km/s
receding (RC3)

Because its light is 437 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4568 as it looked roughly 437 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 4580Lenticular11 million ly
apart
IC 4570Spiral12 million ly
apart
IC 4574Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
IC 4569Elliptical21 million ly
apart
IC 4572Barred spiral27 million ly
apart
IC 4581Spiral29 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). Distance computed by gravityfinder from redshift via Hubble's law (H0 = 70 km/s/Mpc).

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