IC 4896
IC 4896
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
489 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
128k ly
across
15.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 489 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4896 as it looked roughly 489 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 4957Barred spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4976Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 4973Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 4974 NED01Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 4911Lenticular63 million ly
apartIC 4834Spiral63 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4976Spiral51 million ly
apartIC 4973Barred spiral55 million ly
apartIC 4974 NED01Elliptical57 million ly
apartIC 4911Lenticular63 million ly
apartIC 4834Spiral63 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).