IC 4596
IC 4596
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBab
355 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
171k ly
across
15.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 355 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4596 as it looked roughly 355 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 5995Spiral68 million ly
apartNGC 5959Elliptical68 million ly
apartNGC 5978Spiral76 million ly
apartNGC 5883Lenticular100 million ly
apartNGC 5880Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 5849Lenticular110 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5959Elliptical68 million ly
apartNGC 5978Spiral76 million ly
apartNGC 5883Lenticular100 million ly
apartNGC 5880Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 5849Lenticular110 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).