IC 4661
IC 4661
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
228 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
13.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 228 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4661 as it looked roughly 228 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 4644Barred spiral7.7 million ly
apartIC 4654Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6653Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4640Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4647Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 6183Spiral28 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4654Spiral16 million ly
apartNGC 6653Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4640Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4647Lenticular26 million ly
apartNGC 6183Spiral28 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).