IC 4873
IC 4873
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
268 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
73k ly
across
15.1
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 268 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4873 as it looked roughly 268 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 4874Spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 6806Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6761Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4876Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6768Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6878Spiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6806Spiral18 million ly
apartNGC 6761Barred spiral26 million ly
apartIC 4876Spiral32 million ly
apartNGC 6768Elliptical32 million ly
apartNGC 6878Spiral33 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).