IC 4913
IC 4913
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
170 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
78k ly
across
14.0
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 170 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4913 as it looked roughly 170 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
NGC 6851BBarred spiral33 million ly
apartNGC 6851ABarred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6875ABarred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6875Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 6861FBarred spiral37 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6851ABarred spiral33 million ly
apartIC 5020Barred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6875ABarred spiral34 million ly
apartNGC 6875Elliptical36 million ly
apartNGC 6861FBarred spiral37 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).