IC 4899
IC 4899
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
198 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
59k ly
across
14.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 198 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4899 as it looked roughly 198 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 4929Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartIC 4853Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 6876ABarred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4887Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 4992Barred spiral9.0 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4853Barred spiral7.0 million ly
apartNGC 6876ABarred spiral7.9 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral8.0 million ly
apartIC 4887Spiral8.3 million ly
apartIC 4992Barred spiral9.0 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).