IC 4650
IC 4650
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Lenticular
type · S0
372 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
66k ly
across
15.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 372 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4650 as it looked roughly 372 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 6338Lenticular9.4 million ly
apartNGC 6370Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1260Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1258Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical16 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6370Elliptical13 million ly
apartIC 1259 NED01Elliptical14 million ly
apartIC 1260Lenticular14 million ly
apartIC 1258Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6391Elliptical16 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).