IC 4238
IC 4238
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sab
312 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
79k ly
across
15.9
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 312 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4238 as it looked roughly 312 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 4256Barred spiral5.5 million ly
apartNGC 5131Spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 4227Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5052Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5081Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 883Spiral21 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5131Spiral6.7 million ly
apartIC 4227Barred spiral12 million ly
apartNGC 5052Lenticular13 million ly
apartNGC 5081Barred spiral15 million ly
apartIC 883Spiral21 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).