IC 4585
IC 4585
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
173 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
12.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 173 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4585 as it looked roughly 173 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 4584Spiral820,000 ly
apartNGC 5938Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4595Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6156Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6392Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5799Lenticular36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5938Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4595Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6156Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6392Spiral31 million ly
apartNGC 5799Lenticular36 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).