IC 4333

IC 4333

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Lenticular
type · S0-a
127 million ly
from Earth · from redshift
67k ly
across
14.8
apparent magnitude

Because its light is 127 million ly from home, you are seeing IC 4333 as it looked roughly 127 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 4545Spiral8.8 million ly
apart
NGC 5612Spiral13 million ly
apart
NGC 6438Lenticular14 million ly
apart
IC 4555Barred spiral16 million ly
apart
NGC 2573BIrregular16 million ly
apart
Polarissima AustralisSpiral18 million ly
apart
Worlds in the same direction on the sky

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).

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