IC 4929
IC 4929
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
197 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
77k ly
across
14.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 197 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4929 as it looked roughly 197 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 4992Barred spiral4.6 million ly
apartIC 4899Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6876ABarred spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 4853Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4985Spiral11 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4899Barred spiral5.3 million ly
apartNGC 6876ABarred spiral5.5 million ly
apartIC 4892Barred spiral9.4 million ly
apartIC 4853Barred spiral10 million ly
apartIC 4985Spiral11 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).