IC 4878
IC 4878
IC 4878 is a galaxy in the constellation Pavo about 243 million ly from Earth. It spans roughly 110,000 ly, about the width of our Milky Way. The light reaching us tonight left it about 243 million years ago.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Galaxy
morphology
243 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
106k ly
across
15.2
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 243 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4878 as it looked roughly 243 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 4861Spiral7.0 million ly
apartIC 4880Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartIC 4890Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4866Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4908Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4880Lenticular7.9 million ly
apartIC 4890Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apartIC 4866Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4908Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4881Barred spiral21 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).