IC 4881
IC 4881
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBbc
223 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 223 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4881 as it looked roughly 223 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 4882Barred spiral4.9 million ly
apartIC 4848Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6812Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 4937Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4857Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6850Lenticular14 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4848Barred spiral10 million ly
apartNGC 6812Lenticular12 million ly
apartIC 4937Barred spiral14 million ly
apartIC 4857Spiral14 million ly
apartNGC 6850Lenticular14 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).