IC 4976
IC 4976
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sa
522 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 522 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4976 as it looked roughly 522 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 4974 NED01Elliptical8.6 million ly
apartIC 4973Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4993Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 5010Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4896Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 5035Spiral55 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4973Barred spiral35 million ly
apartIC 4993Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 5010Spiral48 million ly
apartIC 4896Barred spiral51 million ly
apartIC 5035Spiral55 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).