IC 4280
IC 4280
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Barred spiral
type · Sbc
231 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
12.8
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 231 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4280 as it looked roughly 231 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 4315Barred spiral12 million ly
apartIC 4290Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4293Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4267Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5330Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4321Barred spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 4290Barred spiral16 million ly
apartIC 4293Elliptical19 million ly
apartIC 4267Barred spiral24 million ly
apartNGC 5330Elliptical25 million ly
apartIC 4321Barred spiral26 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).