IC 4874
IC 4874
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABb
262 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 262 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4874 as it looked roughly 262 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 4873Barred spiral8.4 million ly
apartNGC 6761Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6806Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4876Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6878ASpiral33 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6761Barred spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 6806Spiral24 million ly
apartIC 4876Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral27 million ly
apartNGC 6878ASpiral33 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).