IC 4250
IC 4250
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Spiral
type · Sc
519 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
83k ly
across
15.6
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 519 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4250 as it looked roughly 519 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 4258Elliptical19 million ly
apartNGC 5251Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 4307Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 4234Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 5271Barred spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 5280Elliptical46 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartNGC 5251Lenticular25 million ly
apartIC 4307Lenticular29 million ly
apartIC 4234Spiral39 million ly
apartNGC 5271Barred spiral45 million ly
apartNGC 5280Elliptical46 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).