IC 4598
IC 4598
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
172 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
14.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 172 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4598 as it looked roughly 172 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 4597Spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 5843Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4538Spiral54 million ly
apartNGC 5786Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 5791Elliptical64 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5843Barred spiral54 million ly
apartIC 4538Spiral54 million ly
apartNGC 5786Barred spiral60 million ly
apartNGC 5766Barred spiral63 million ly
apartNGC 5791Elliptical64 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).