IC 4582
IC 4582
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
35k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4582 as it looked roughly 100 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 5958Spiral7.5 million ly
apartNGC 5974Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 6035Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1151Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5961Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5962Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5974Spiral9.3 million ly
apartNGC 6035Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 1151Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5961Barred spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 5962Spiral21 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).