IC 4158
IC 4158
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
324 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
72k ly
across
15.7
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 324 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4158 as it looked roughly 324 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 4077Barred spiral6.9 million ly
apartIC 3921Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4737Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 883Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4662Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral25 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 3921Spiral19 million ly
apartNGC 4737Lenticular22 million ly
apartIC 883Spiral23 million ly
apartNGC 4662Barred spiral23 million ly
apartIC 3895Barred spiral25 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).