IC 4876
IC 4876
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
260 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
101k ly
across
14.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 260 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4876 as it looked roughly 260 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 4879Spiral13 million ly
apartNGC 6761Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4908Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6854Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4927Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4890Barred spiral22 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6761Barred spiral20 million ly
apartIC 4908Spiral20 million ly
apartNGC 6854Elliptical21 million ly
apartIC 4927Barred spiral21 million ly
apartIC 4890Barred spiral22 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).