IC 4573
IC 4573
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
333 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 333 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4573 as it looked roughly 333 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 4577Elliptical4.5 million ly
apartIC 4579Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartIC 4575Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5991Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1138Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4576Elliptical19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4579Elliptical6.3 million ly
apartIC 4575Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 5991Elliptical18 million ly
apartIC 1138Lenticular19 million ly
apartIC 4576Elliptical19 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).