IC 4587
IC 4587
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
624 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
151k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 624 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4587 as it looked roughly 624 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 4590Elliptical85 million ly
apartIC 1162Spiral90 million ly
apartIC 1142Barred spiral94 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED02Elliptical97 million ly
apartNGC 6062Barred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 6062BSpiral100 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 1162Spiral90 million ly
apartIC 1142Barred spiral94 million ly
apartIC 1191 NED02Elliptical97 million ly
apartNGC 6062Barred spiral100 million ly
apartNGC 6062BSpiral100 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).