IC 4903
IC 4903
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
560 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
190k ly
across
15.3
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 560 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4903 as it looked roughly 560 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 4841Spiral39 million ly
apartIC 4822Barred spiral42 million ly
apartIC 4921Lenticular45 million ly
apartIC 4993Spiral53 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 5073Barred spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4822Barred spiral42 million ly
apartIC 4921Lenticular45 million ly
apartIC 4993Spiral53 million ly
apartIC 5066Spiral55 million ly
apartIC 5073Barred spiral55 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).