IC 4972
IC 4972
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sb
169 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
50k ly
across
13.4
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 169 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4972 as it looked roughly 169 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 5008Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 4960Lenticular7.8 million ly
apartIC 5024Galaxy8.9 million ly
apartIC 4962Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 4981Irregular9.5 million ly
apartNGC 6932Lenticular10 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4960Lenticular7.8 million ly
apartIC 5024Galaxy8.9 million ly
apartIC 4962Barred spiral8.9 million ly
apartIC 4981Irregular9.5 million ly
apartNGC 6932Lenticular10 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).