IC 4993
IC 4993
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sm
524 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 524 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4993 as it looked roughly 524 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 4921Lenticular18 million ly
apartIC 5010Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4976Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4974 NED01Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 5032Lenticular52 million ly
apartIC 4903Barred spiral53 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 5010Spiral30 million ly
apartIC 4976Spiral47 million ly
apartIC 4974 NED01Elliptical48 million ly
apartIC 5032Lenticular52 million ly
apartIC 4903Barred spiral53 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).