IC 4652
IC 4652
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
186 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 186 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4652 as it looked roughly 186 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 6328Spiral25 million ly
apartNGC 6545Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4679Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4674Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4718Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6492Barred spiral30 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6545Elliptical26 million ly
apartIC 4679Barred spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4674Spiral27 million ly
apartIC 4718Spiral28 million ly
apartNGC 6492Barred spiral30 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).