IC 4621
IC 4621
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
442 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
104k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 442 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4621 as it looked roughly 442 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 6219Lenticular8.8 million ly
apartNGC 6225Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6224Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6230 NED02Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6230 NED01Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 6234Elliptical36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6225Elliptical25 million ly
apartNGC 6224Elliptical28 million ly
apartNGC 6230 NED02Elliptical33 million ly
apartNGC 6230 NED01Elliptical35 million ly
apartNGC 6234Elliptical36 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).