IC 4627
IC 4627
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
484 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
92k ly
across
16.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 484 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4627 as it looked roughly 484 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 6234Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 6230 NED01Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 6230 NED02Elliptical110 million ly
apartNGC 6225Elliptical120 million ly
apartNGC 6033Barred spiral120 million ly
apartNGC 6224Elliptical130 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6230 NED01Elliptical100 million ly
apartNGC 6230 NED02Elliptical110 million ly
apartNGC 6225Elliptical120 million ly
apartNGC 6033Barred spiral120 million ly
apartNGC 6224Elliptical130 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).