IC 4931
IC 4931
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E
281 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
186k ly
across
11.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 281 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4931 as it looked roughly 281 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 6849Elliptical9.5 million ly
apartNGC 6805Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4926Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4991Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 6806Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6794Spiral31 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 6805Elliptical24 million ly
apartIC 4926Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4991Lenticular25 million ly
apartNGC 6806Spiral30 million ly
apartNGC 6794Spiral31 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).