IC 4736
IC 4736
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBd
159 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
60k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 159 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4736 as it looked roughly 159 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 6699Spiral5.2 million ly
apartIC 4757Lenticular7.1 million ly
apartIC 4775Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartIC 4807Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4717Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4826Spiral13 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4757Lenticular7.1 million ly
apartIC 4775Barred spiral7.2 million ly
apartIC 4807Barred spiral11 million ly
apartIC 4717Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4826Spiral13 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).