IC 4322
IC 4322
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Elliptical
type · E-S0
379 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
76k ly
across
15.5
apparent magnitude
Because its light is 379 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4322 as it looked roughly 379 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 909Spiral7.6 million ly
apartIC 910Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 916Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4314Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 949Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4317Spiral26 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky→apartIC 910Spiral15 million ly
apartIC 916Elliptical15 million ly
apartIC 4314Elliptical22 million ly
apartIC 949Spiral25 million ly
apartIC 4317Spiral26 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).