IC 4901
IC 4901
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · SABc
100 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
107k ly
across
11.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 100 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4901 as it looked roughly 100 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 4986Spiral8.6 million ly
apartIC 4871Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6990Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4819Spiral17 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4871Spiral11 million ly
apartNGC 6810Spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 6990Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4869Spiral17 million ly
apartIC 4819Spiral17 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).