IC 4890
IC 4890
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · SBb
246 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
14.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 246 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4890 as it looked roughly 246 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 4880Lenticular3.8 million ly
apartIC 4878Galaxy9.0 million ly
apartIC 4908Spiral9.2 million ly
apartIC 4861Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral19 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4878Galaxy9.0 million ly
apartIC 4908Spiral9.2 million ly
apartIC 4861Spiral13 million ly
apartIC 4879Spiral18 million ly
apartIC 4933Barred spiral19 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).