IC 4641
IC 4641
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
252 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
90k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 252 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4641 as it looked roughly 252 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 4647Lenticular19 million ly
apartNGC 6557Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 4640Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4644Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4661Spiral36 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6557Lenticular21 million ly
apartIC 4640Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4644Barred spiral34 million ly
apartIC 4661Spiral36 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).