IC 4572
IC 4572
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBa
464 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
157k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 464 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4572 as it looked roughly 464 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 4581Spiral4.1 million ly
apartIC 4569Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartIC 4574Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 6001Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4570Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4580Lenticular19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4569Elliptical6.8 million ly
apartIC 4574Barred spiral8.8 million ly
apartNGC 6001Spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4570Spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4580Lenticular19 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).